[ecoop-info] CFP: Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing at ACM SAC 2014

[Somayeh Malakuti]

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Call For Papers and Student Research Abstracts

Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing

               http://www.green-se.net/segc/2014/

The 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 24 - 28, 2014, Gyeongju, South Korea
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The increasing amount of the energy consumption of today's IT solutions
significantly contributes to green house gas emissions. "Green Computing"
or "Green IT" emphasizes on the need for reducing the environmental
impacts of IT solutions by reducing their energy consumption and 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 Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing track at the 2014
Symposium on Applied Computing aims to bring together academic and
industrial researchers to share their experience in achieving the
green-ness in and by software. Submissions are encouraged, but not
limited, in the following topics:
  * 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 Requirement elicitation phase:
		* Methods and tools to elicit and model greenness requirements
		* Methods and tools to identify and analyze the trade-offs among
                                      the functional requirements,
greenness requirements
                                      themselves and other quality attributes
	o Architectural design phase:
		* Methods and tools to model greenness attributes of
                                      software architecture
		* Methods and tools to analyze the trade-offs among the
                                      functional requirements,
greenness attributes themselves and
                                      other quality attributes
		* Metrics to evaluate the greenness of software architecture
		* Methods and tools to trace greenness attributes to
                                      the greenness requirements
		* Dedicated architectural patterns to achieve green software
		* Refactoring methods energy saving
	o Implementation phase:
		* (Domain-specific) languages to implement greener software
		* Compilation methods to achieve greener software
		* IDE support to guide programmers in implementing
                                      greener software
		* Refactoring methods to make legacy software greener
		* Methods and tools to measure the greenness of implementations
		* Methods and tools to assess the trade-offs between
                                      the functionality, the greenness
and other quality attributes
	o Testing phase:
		* Methods and tools to generate test scenarios to assess
                                      the greenness of software
		* Energy profiling techniques
	o Operational phase:
		* Methods and tools to monitor the greenness attributes
		* Methods and tools to dynamically adapt the software to fulfill
                                      its greenness attributes
		* Methods and tools to profile energy consumption and to
                                      carbon foot printing
		* Metrics to identify energy hotspots

  * 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 Industrial case studies such as smart home, smart cities,
                     smart embedded systems
	o Methods and tools to make industrial solutions dynamically
                     adaptive in their greenness attributes
	o Methods and tools to measure the effect of green-ness by software
	o Methods and tools to make hardware greener by software
	o Application software for smart control of eco-friendly buildings,
                    thermo-control of data centers, climate monitoring


Student Research Abstracts
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Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their
research ideas are invited to submit abstracts (minimum of 2-pages and
maximum of 4-pages) of their original un-published and in-progress
research work in the area of Software Engineering Aspects of Green
Computing. For more details, see http://www.green-se.net/segc/2014/


Submission Guideline
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All submitted papers must represent original work and can only be submitted
to a single ACM SAC track. Papers submitted to more than one track will be
removed from the conference. There is a limit of 6 pages using the ACM SIG
format. Authors may opt to add 2 additional pages (at extra charge). Please
ensure that the author names and contacts are omitted from the submitted
paper during the initial review phase. Paper submissions must be made
electronically in PDF format via the ACM SAC website
https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2014.

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the
paper/poster in the conference proceedings.
An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a
requirement for all accepted papers and posters to be included
in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters
will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.


Important Dates
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* Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts: September 13, 2013
* Submission of tutorial proposals: September 27, 2013
* Notification of tutorials acceptance: November 1, 2013
* Author notification for papers and SRC abstracts: November 15, 2013
* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: December 6, 2013
* Author registration due date: December 13, 201



Program Committee
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* Rami Bahsoon (The University of Birmingham, UK)
* Christoph Bockisch (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
* Fernando Castor (UFPE, Brazil)
* James Clause (University of Delaware, USA)
* G.R. Gangadharan (IDRBT, India)
* Sebastian Gotz (TU Dresden, Germany)
* Shigeru Kusakabe (Kyushu University, Japan)
* Patricia Lago (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
* Thomas Ledoux (EMN, France)
* Yu David Liu  (SUNY Binghamton, USA)
* Wolfgang Lohmann (Empa, Switzerland)
* Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University, Canada)
* Somayeh Malakuti (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
* Maurizio Morisio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
* Vasily Moshnyaga (Fukuoka University, Japan)
* Stefan Naumann (Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
* Joost Noppen (University of East Anglia, UK)
* Birgit Penzenstadler (UC Irvine, USA)
* Romain Rouvoy (University Lille 1, France)
* Lionel Seinturier  (University Lille 1, France)
* Shiao-Li Tsao (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
* Daniel Versick (University of Rostock, Germany)
* Andreas Winter (Carl von Ossietzky Universitat, Germany)
* Claas Wilke (TU Dresden, Germany)

Track Chairs
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Somayeh Malakuti (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Wolfgang Lohmann (Empa, Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and
                   Technology, Switzerland)
Mehmet Aksit (University of Twente, The Netherlands)


For more detailed information, please visit
    http://www.green-se.net/segc/2014/