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Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:02 AM<br>Subject: CFP: IEEE Software Special Issue on Green Software<br>To: <a href="mailto:ecoop-info@ecoop.org">ecoop-info@ecoop.org</a><br><br><br>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><font size="6"><b><i><span style lang="EN-US">IEEE Software</span></i></b><b><span style lang="EN-US"> Call
for Articles: Green Software</span></b></font><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission deadline: 25 June 2013</span></b></font></p><font size="4">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">Publication: January/February 2014</span></b></font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Information
technologies (IT) requiring vast amount of energy and other resources are used
in almost every field and process. Green IT is the study and practice of using
computing resources efficiently to reduce negative impacts on the environment. Green
IT is applicable to various high-tech domains, such as data centers, mobile
computing, and embedded systems. Recently, global carbon dioxide emissions reached
9.1 billion tons, the highest level in human history—49% higher than in 1990
(the Kyoto reference year). At least 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions can
be attributed to IT systems; and further increases are expected with new IT systems
being deployed daily. Therefore, reducing the energy consumption and related
carbon dioxide emission of IT systems is a crucial requirement. Reducing energy
consumption also leads to reduced maintenance expenses and costs of ownership,
giving manufacturers a competitive advantage.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Change is therefore
inevitable. Companies must implement energy-efficient and technology services
around the globe. This, along with regulations and standards for measuring
energy efficiency, will continue to drive the development of energy-efficient
pathways. In this context, green IT is an ideal way for companies to achieve
environmental sustainability and reduce the cost of system and product maintenance.
Most studies and regulatory controls focus on hardware related measurement,
analysis, and control for energy consumption. However, all forms of hardware include
significant software components.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Although software
systems do not consume energy directly, they affect hardware utilization,
leading to indirect energy consumption. Therefore, it is important to engineer
software with optimized energy consumption in mind. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">As software
continues to affect all aspects of our lives in ever-changing forms, leveraging
existing systems is a challenging task for many companies. Keeping software available
on demand with a high quality of service (in respect to end-users’
requirements) creates a conflict in terms of software energy consumption.
Moreover, each integrated quality feature is accompanied by increasing levels
of energy consumption. Therefore, it is challenging to maintain environmentally
friendly software. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">On the other hand,
software systems can play a proactive role in saving energy by providing
feedback about the way they consume resources. Such proactive feedback can lead
to changes in people’s behavior and help make processes greener. Building green
software systems has implications for environmental awareness, behavioral
changes, and can contribute to the building of smart communities and cities. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Possible topics
include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Green software: definition, reality and
vision.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Green software in different computing
contexts (data centers, mobile devices, sensor networks, and embedded systems).</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Software engineering of green software:
requirements engineering, architecting and designing.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Trade-offs during analysis and
prioritization of green IT-related requirements (for example, those related to
energy consumption) versus others.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Quality assurance of green software (for
example, quality models for greenness and metrics to measure them).</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Making the world greener via software.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">“Greening” legacy systems.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Energy as a hidden cost of computing.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Business models associated with green
computing (for example, aggregation of workloads in cloud environments).</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Cost/benefit analyses of green software
efforts.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Tools enabling green software engineering.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Case studies and industry experience reports.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="DE">Incentives
to invest in greener software.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Energy-aware programming languages.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">Questions?</span></b></p>
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information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:33.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style lang="DE"><span>●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="DE">Ayse Basar Bener, professor, Ryerson
University: <a href="mailto:ayse.bener@ryerson.ca" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">ayse.bener@ryerson.ca</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:33.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style lang="DE"><span>●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="DE">Maurizio Morisio, professor, Politecnico di
Torino: <a href="mailto:maurizio.morisio@polito.it" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">maurizio.morisio@polito.it</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:33.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style lang="DE"><span>●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="DE">Andriy Miranskyy, software engineer, IBM
Toronto Software Lab: <a href="mailto:andriy@ca.ibm.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">andriy@ca.ibm.com</span></a></span></p>
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ayse Bener, PhD<div>Professor</div><div>Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering</div><div>Ryerson University</div><div>350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON Canada M5B 2K3</div><div>Tel: <a href="tel:1%20416%20979%205000%2C%20X-%203155" value="+14169795000" target="_blank">1 416 979 5000, X- 3155</a></div>
<div>Web: <a href="http://www.ryerson.ca/~abener/" target="_blank">http://www.ryerson.ca/~abener/</a></div><div><br></div>
</font></span></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ayse Basar Bener, PhD<div>Professor</div><div>Data Science Lab</div><div>Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering</div><div>Ryerson University</div><div>350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON Canada M5B 2K3</div>
<div>Tel: 1 416 979 5000, X- 3155</div><div>Web: <a href="http://www.ryerson.ca/~abener/" target="_blank">http://www.ryerson.ca/~abener/</a></div><div><br></div>
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