[ecoop-info] Deadline extension: SUSCOM special issue on Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing

[Somayeh Malakuti]

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Call for Submissions  

     Special issue of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems
(SUSCOM) 

                     on Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing 

                                             

* provided by Elsevier *

                                             

http://green-se.net/segc/suscom/

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Despite that ICT hardware is becoming increasingly efficient, the ICT sector
outgrows the efficiency gains. "Green Computing" emphasizes the need for
reducing the environmental impacts of ICT solutions by reducing the need for
resources, especially energy, during its life cycle. Among others, green
computing can be achieved in software and by software. While greening by
software aims at saving resources by the help of software, greening in
software aims at reducing the environmental impact caused by the software
itself. Besides saving energy and aiming for efficiency, green computing is
a complex trade-off between efficiently using required resource and keeping
the environmental impact low. This has consequences for architectural
decisions. 

Green-ness in the software is an emerging quality attribute that must be
taken into the account in each phase of the software development process at
each level of the ICT system from the application level via middle-ware to
operating system and hardware. Achieving green-ness by software requires
methods and techniques that support finding, implementing, and measuring
software solutions that make infrastructure smarter, virtualize processes,
contribute to dematerialization or new solutions like smart grids. Typical
examples are applications that help to reduce energy consumption in facility
management, in production, mobility, and in embedded systems. The analysis
of all factors that have an environmental impact and the search for the
optimal trade-off therefore has to be included in software development
methods. 

Authors are invited to submit original papers representing their idea and
achievements in green computing in and by software and discuss/focus on the
software engineering aspects. Submissions are encouraged, but not limited,
to the following topics: 

 

.Greenness in Software: which dedicated software engineering methods and
tools are required during the software development process to model, analyze
and minimize the ecologic impact/environmental impact including the energy
consumption of software systems? 

 

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 for the purpose of 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:

*        Metrics, 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 fulfil its
greenness attributes, e.g. energy aware computing methods

*        Methods and tools to profile energy consumption and to carbon foot
printing

*        applications that help to reduce energy consumption in facility
management, in production, mobility, and in embedded systems

 

.             Greenness by software: which dedicated software engineering
methods and tools are required to model, analyze and minimize the
ecologic/environmental impact of industrial solutions by means of software?

o Industrial case studies such as smart home, smart cities, smart embedded
systems and lessons learnt from software engineering perspective

o             Methods and tools to make software 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 the use of
software

o             Application software for smart control of eco-friendly
buildings, thermo-control of data centers, climate monitoring

 

 

Submission Details:

 

General information for submitting papers to SUSCOM can be found at
http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/ (please note the "Guide for Authors" link).
Submissions to this Special Issue (SI) should be made using Elsevier's
editorial system at the journal website (http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/,
under the "submit paper" link).  Please make sure to select the "SI: SEAGC"
option for the type of the paper during the submission process.  All
submissions must be original and may not be under review by another
publication.  A submission based on one or more papers that appeared
elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared
previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to
the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a
summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.
All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using the normal standards of
SUSCOM.  By submitting a paper to this issue, the authors agree to review
one paper (if asked) within the time frame of the SI. 

 

Important Dates:

 

. Manuscript due date: February 20, 2014  

. First decision notification: April 15, 2014

. Tentative publication schedule: Last quarter of 2014

 

Special Issue Editors:

 

. Somayeh Malakuti (primary contact)

  Technical University of Dresden, Germany 

  Email: somayeh.malakuti at tu-dresden.de
<mailto:somayeh.malakuti at tu-dresden.de> 

 

. Wolfgang Lohmann 

  Empa - Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology,
Switzerland

  Email: wolfgang.lohmann at gmail.com <mailto:wolfgang.lohmann at gmail.com> 

 

. Mehmet Aksit 

University of Twente, The Netherlands

Email: m.aksit at utwente.nl <mailto:m.aksit at utwente.nl> 

 

 

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