[ecoop-info] Call for papers: The First International Workshop on Green In Software Engineering, Green By Software Engineering (GIBSE)

[Somayeh Malakuti]

             The First International Workshop on 
		Green In Software Engineering,
                     Green By Software Engineering (GIBSE)

                  http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/GIBSE/

                    Co-located with AOSD'13, Fukuoka, Japan
                               March 26, 2013

                         C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

                Deadline Submission:        Friday, December  21st 
                Notification of acceptance: Monday, January 14th
                Camera-ready version:       Monday, January 28th
                Workshop at AOSD:           Tuesday, March 26th


Motivation

The  increasing  amount  of  energy  consumption  in  today's    IT    solutions
significantly contributes to green house gas emissions. "Green  Computing"  or
"Green IT" emphasizes the need for reducing  the  environmental  impacts  of  IT
solutions by reducing their energy consumption and, consequently,   their  green
house gas emissions. Among others, green computing can be achieved  in  software
and by software. While greening by software aims  at  saving  energy  (or  other
resources) by the help of software, greening in software aims  at  reducing  the
environmental impact caused by the software itself. The GIBSE workshop  aims  to
bring together academic and industrial researchers  to  share  their  experience
in achieving the green-ness in and by software.  Submissions  are  encouraged in,
but not limited to, the following topics:

Workshop format

The workshop participants will be selected based on their experience  and  ideas
related to  this  new  and  emerging  field.   You  are  invited  to  apply  for

attendance by sending a full-paper (5 pages), work-in-progress paper  (3  pages)
or a position paper (3 pages) in  PDF.   The  paper  must  conform  to  the  ACM
SIGPLAN formatting guidelines:  http://www. sigplan. org/authorInformation. htm.
Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 PC  members.   The  authors  will  be
notified about acceptance before the AOSD 2013 early registration  deadline.   A
primary deliverable of the workshop is a report that clearly  outlines  (1)  the
research issues and challenges in terms of specific  research  problems  in  the
area, and (2) a synopsis of existing solutions  that  target  some  well-defined
aspect of greenness  in  or  by  software.   Potential  attendees  are  strongly
encouraged to submit position papers that clearly identify research  issues  and
challenges, present techniques that address well-defined problems in  the  area,
and are supported by small demos.

Goals

With this workshop, we intend to raise the  interest  in  the  topic  and  bring
together junior and senior  researchers  working  in  this  field.   It  is  our
intention to receive submissions from researchers new to the field  as  well  as
experienced researchers and practitioners. For the former, we want  to  offer  a
platform for discussing their ideas and receiving feedback on them.   This  will
be supported by question and answer sessions as well as  by  group  discussions.
The planned  workshop  agenda  interleaves  presentations  of  accepted  papers,
lightning talks about green computing by participants without  accepted  papers,
and discussions. To stimulate participants we intend  to  invite  at  least  one
expert in the field for a keynote talk. 

Topics of Interest

We strongly encourage authors to address the following topics:

- Green-ness in software engineering:
  - Methods and techniques to elicit and model green-ness requirements
  - Methods and techniques to identify and analyze the trade-offs among the 
    green-ness requirements themselves and other quality attributes
  - Methods and techniques to model and analyze the green-ness attributes of 
    software architecture and their trade-offs
  - Dedicated programming infrastructures, component models, compilers, and 
    linguistic constructs to achieve green-ness in the implementations
  - Methods and techniques to represent green-ness requirements in test 
    scenarios
  - Method and techniques to test the green-ness of software
  - Crosscutting nature of green-ness attributes and the aspect-oriented 
    techniques to cope with it
- Green-ness by software engineering:
  - Design of self-energy-adaptive system architectures
  - Estimating and measuring the energy-consumption of system at design and 
    runtime
  - Design and run-time energy models for self-energy-adaptive system
  - Multi-objective optimization of energy and other quality attributes

Organizers

Somayeh Malakuti (main contact), University of Twente, Netherlands
Christoph Bockisch, University of Twente, Netherlands
Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany
Sebastian Götz, TU Dresden, Germany 
Steven te Brinke, University of Twente
Birgit Penzenstadler, TU Munich

Important Dates

Deadline Submission:        Friday, December  21st 
Notification of acceptance: Monday, January 14th
Camera-ready version:       Monday, January 28th
Workshop at AOSD:           Tuesday, March 26th

Program Committee ( to be extended)

James Clause University of Delaware, USA
G.R. Gangadharan, IDRBT, India 
Claas Wilke, TU Dresden, Germany
Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne University, Australia
Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1, France

Further Information
Web site: http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/GIBSE/
Contact:  Somayeh Malakuti (malakutis at ewi.utwente.nl)