ISKE 2025 Special Session on Smart Grid and Intelligent Energy Control

The 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2025) is the 20th in a series of ISKE conferences. The conference will be held in Shunde, a beautiful place in southeast of China.

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Press (sent to be EI indexed). Special issues of SCI indexed journals will be devoted to a strict refereed selection of extended papers presented at ISKE 2025.

Scope and Motivation

The global imperative to achieve resilient, sustainable, and digitized power networks has propelled the Smart Grid and Control​ domain to the forefront of energy systems modernization. Smart Grids​ represent a fundamental transformation of legacy power infrastructures, driven by the pervasive integration of ​digitization, distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop solar and electric vehicles (EVs), and the critical need for greater adaptability to dynamic supply-demand patterns.This evolution necessitates sophisticated control architectures to manage escalating complexities—including real-time balancing under renewable intermittency, mitigation of grid congestion, voltage and frequency stabilization, and ensuring cyber-physical security across increasingly networked and automated systems. Core enabling technologies encompass​advanced sensing and communication (e.g., synchrophasors, IoT edge networks),​artificial intelligence and machine learning​ for predictive control and anomaly detection, ​distributed optimization frameworks, and ​robust power electronics interfaces​ for DER integration and Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS).

However, profound challenges persist. These include​operational uncertainties​ stemming from volatile generation and consumption profiles, inherent vulnerabilities​ within cyber-physical system architectures, interoperability gaps between legacy equipment and emerging technologies, and the demand for​consumer-empowering solutions that facilitate active participation through demand response and transactive energy markets. The transition towards decarbonized and decentralized grids further demands ​holistic control frameworks​ capable of integrating multi-vector energy flows (electricity, heat, gas), heterogeneous storage portfolios (batteries, thermal, hydrogen), and granular demand-side flexibility. These frameworks must demonstrably reconcile​technical reliability, ​economic efficiency, ​cybersecurity resilience, and​environmental imperatives, while enhancing transparency, accessibility, and fairness for diverse stakeholders, from large industrial users to residential prosumers. Convergent research spanning ​power systems engineering, control theory, computer science, cybersecurity, economics, and social sciences is therefore essential to co-design secure, scalable, and societally beneficial smart grid ecosystems for a sustainable energy future.

Aims and Objectives

This special session aims to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss and share their latest research findings, innovative ideas, and practical experiences in the field of energy conversion and smart control. The session will provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and the promotion of collaboration among participants, fostering the development of new ideas and solutions to address the challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field.