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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Call for Papers and Student Research Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <a href="http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/">http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>April 13 - 17, 2015, Salamanca, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The increasing amount of the energy consumption of today's IT solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. "Green Computing"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>or "Green IT" emphasizes on the need for reducing the environmental <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>impacts of IT solutions by reducing their energy consumption and their <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>greenhouse gas emissions. Among others, green computing can be achieved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>in software and by software. While greening by software aims at saving <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>energy (or other resources) by the help of software, greening in software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>aims at reducing the environmental impact caused by the software itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>The Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing track at the 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Symposium on Applied Computing aims to bring together academic and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>industrial researchers to share their experience in achieving the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>green-ness in and by software. Submissions are encouraged, but not <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>limited, in the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Greenness in Software: which dedicated software engineering methods and tools are required to model, analyze and optimize energy-consumption and carbon dioxide generation of software systems during the software development process? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Requirement elicitation phase:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to elicit and model greenness requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to identify and analyze the trade-offs among the functional requirements, greenness requirements themselves and other quality attributes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>o Architectural design phase:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to model greenness attributes of software architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to analyze the trade-offs among the functional requirements, greenness attributes themselves and other quality attributes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Metrics to evaluate the greenness of software architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to trace greenness attributes to the greenness requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Dedicated architectural patterns to achieve green software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Refactoring methods energy saving<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Implementation phase:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * (Domain-specific) languages to implement greener software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Compilation methods to achieve greener software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * IDE support to guide programmers in implementing greener software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Refactoring methods to make legacy software greener<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to measure the greenness of implementations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to assess the trade-offs between the functionality, the greenness and other quality attributes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Testing phase:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to generate test scenarios to assess the greenness of software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Energy profiling techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Operational phase:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to monitor the greenness attributes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to dynamically adapt the software to fulfill its greenness attributes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Methods and tools to profile energy consumption and to carbon foot printing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Metrics to identify energy hotspots<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> * Greenness by software: which dedicated software engineering methods and tools are required to model, analyze and optimize energy-consumption and carbon dioxide generation of industrial solutions by means of software?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Industrial case studies such as smart home, smart cities, smart embedded systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Methods and tools to make industrial solutions dynamically adaptive in their greenness attributes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Methods and tools to measure the effect of green-ness by software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Methods and tools to make hardware greener by software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> o Application software for smart control of eco-friendly buildings, thermo-control of data centers, climate monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Student Research Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>--------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>research ideas are invited to submit abstracts (minimum of 2-pages and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>maximum of 4-pages) of their original un-published and in-progress <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>research work in the area of Software Engineering Aspects of Green <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Computing. For more details, see <a href="http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/">http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Submission Guideline<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>--------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>All submitted papers must represent original work and can only be submitted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>to a single ACM SAC track. Papers submitted to more than one track will be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>removed from the conference. There is a limit of 6 pages using the ACM SIG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>format. Authors may opt to add 2 additional pages (at extra charge). Please<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ensure that the author names and contacts are omitted from the submitted <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>paper during the initial review phase. Paper submissions must be made <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>electronically in PDF format via the ACM SAC website <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2015">https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2015</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers and posters to be included <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>----------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>* Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts: September 12, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>* Submission of tutorial proposals: September 26, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>* Notification of tutorials acceptance: November 3, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>* Author notification for papers and SRC abstracts: November 17, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: December 8, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>* Author registration due date: December 15, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Track Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Somayeh Malakuti (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Wolfgang Lohmann (Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Mehmet Aksit (University of Twente, The Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>For more detailed information, please visit <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> <a href="http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/">http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>