BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230407T191328Z UID:7F0BAC06-F9EE-4DA9-860C-19B644768BA3 DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230405T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230405T203000 DESCRIPTION:The dinner talk at Great American Steakhouse is back again! Thi s time we will invite Dr. Javad Mohammadi\, Assistant Professor in the Civ il Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department at The Universit y of Texas at Austin\, to give us a talk on Multi-agent Sensing and Decisi on Making - From Smart Buildings to Electric Infrastructure. After the tal k\, we will have dinner and network with each other.\n\nThe event is free to those who register by 8:00pm on Monday\, April 3\, and IEEE El Paso Sec tion will cover an entrée for each attendee at the steakhouse. We look fo rward to seeing you! A fee of $10.99 will apply to those who register late r than that.\n\nAbstract of the talk: The digital transformation of cyber- physical infrastructures is driven by connectivity and autonomy. The conse quence of this transformation is that the system’s physical structure ha s become significantly more distributed\, the number of cyber-enabled auto nomous components has dramatically increased\, and the inter-infrastructur e interdependence has expanded. These cyber and physical transitions make system-wide inferences and decision-makings challenging.\n\nThe energy sys tem is an example of an infrastructure that is increasingly facing these c hallenges. The future electric infrastructure will differ from the current system by the increased integration of smart grid-interactive buildings\, decentralized energy generation\, widespread energy storage\, communicati ons\, and sensing technologies. These advancements\, combined with climate change concerns\, and resiliency needs\, are resulting in a more distribu ted and interconnected electric infrastructure\, requiring decisions to be made at scale. The current centralized sensing and decision-making struct ures are not suitable to operate such highly decentralized systems.\n\nIn this talk\, I will consider multi-agent information processing problems an d introduce a set of privacy-preserving\, adaptive\, and computationally e fficient solutions. I will showcase applications in addressing the decarbo nization and resiliency needs of energy systems from smart buildings to el ectric infrastructure. The proposed solutions are based on the consensus+i nnovations multi-agent framework\, in which the consensus term enforces ag reement among agents while the innovations updates ensure that agents’ c onstraints are satisfied.\n\nCo-sponsored by: University of Texas El Paso\ , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\n\nSpeaker(s): Javad M ohammadi\, UT Austin\, \n\nAgenda: \nMeet and Greet: 5:30 - 6:00 PM\n\nSem inar: 6:00 - 7:00 PM\n\nDinner 7:00 - 8:30 PM\n\nGreat American Steakhouse \, 600 Valley Chili Rd\, Anthony\, TX 79821\, Anthony\, Texas\, United Sta tes LOCATION:Great American Steakhouse\, 600 Valley Chili Rd\, Anthony\, TX 798 21\, Anthony\, Texas\, United States ORGANIZER:ysang@utep.edu SEQUENCE:7 SUMMARY:IEEE El Paso Section Dinner Talk: Multi-agent Sensing and Decision Making - From Smart Buildings to Electric Infrastructure URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351810 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The dinner talk at Great American Steakhou se is back again! This time we will invite Dr. Javad Mohammadi\, Assistant Professor in the Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering Depart ment at The University of Texas at Austin\, to give us a talk on Multi-age nt Sensing and Decision Making - From Smart Buildings to Electric Infrastr ucture. After the talk\, we will have dinner and network with each other.< /p>\n<p>The event is <span style="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong>fr ee to those who </strong><strong>register by 8:00pm on Monday\, April 3</s trong></span>\, and IEEE El Paso Section will cover an entr&eacute\;e for each attendee at the steakhouse. We look forward to seeing you! A fee of $ 10.99 will apply to those who register later than that.</p>\n<p><strong>Ab stract of the talk: </strong>The digital transformation of cyber-physical infrastructures is driven by connectivity and autonomy. The consequence of this transformation is that the system&rsquo\;s physical structure has be come significantly more distributed\, the number of cyber-enabled autonomo us components has dramatically increased\, and the inter-infrastructure in terdependence has expanded. These cyber and physical transitions make syst em-wide inferences and decision-makings challenging.</p>\n<p>The energy sy stem is an example of an infrastructure that is increasingly facing these challenges. The future electric infrastructure will differ from the curren t system by the increased integration of smart grid-interactive buildings\ , decentralized energy generation\, widespread energy storage\, communicat ions\, and sensing technologies. These advancements\, combined with climat e change concerns\, and resiliency needs\, are resulting in a more distrib uted and interconnected electric infrastructure\, requiring decisions to b e made at scale. The current centralized sensing and decision-making struc tures are not suitable to operate such highly decentralized systems.</p>\n <p>In this talk\, I will consider multi-agent information processing probl ems and introduce a set of privacy-preserving\, adaptive\, and computation ally efficient solutions. I will showcase applications in addressing the d ecarbonization and resiliency needs of energy systems from smart buildings to electric infrastructure. The proposed solutions are based on the <em>c onsensus+innovations</em> multi-agent framework\, in which the <em>consens us</em> term enforces agreement among agents while the <em>innovations</em > updates ensure that agents&rsquo\; constraints are satisfied.</p><br />< br />Agenda: <br /><p>Meet and Greet:&nbsp\; &nbsp\;5:30 - 6:00 PM</p>\n<p >Seminar:&nbsp\; 6:00 - 7:00 PM</p>\n<p>Dinner 7:00 - 8:30 PM</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR