Special Session on Autonomous Resilient Intelligent Energy Systems (ARIES 2026)

Call for Papers

The quest for building high-performance, autonomous energy systems has always been in engineers’ minds. Nevertheless, the modern world faces an unprecedented dilemma: achieving economic growth without depleting energy and natural resources or harming the environment. At the same time, energy systems are becoming increasingly complex cyber-physical-social systems, integrating heterogeneous entities such as renewable energy sources, battery energy storage systems, microgrids, grid networks, electric vehicles, and prosumer communities. These systems generate vast amounts of data, demand real-time decision-making under uncertainty, and are exposed to cybersecurity threats, yet they often remain hamstrung by outdated control and management techniques that lack autonomy, transparency, and resilience.

This special session aims to challenge conventional approaches for controlling and optimizing energy systems and inspire new solutions grounded in autonomous and trusted computing paradigms. We seek contributions that leverage, but are not limited to, mathematical optimization, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, edge computing, and privacy-preserving distributed methods to make energy systems more intelligent, trustworthy, and fault-tolerant. We invite original articles from scholars and practitioners presenting theoretical concepts and practical approaches. Submissions must emphasize novelty, originality, and mathematical rigor.