[DMANET] 4th International Conference on Green IT Solutions (ICGREEN 2015) - CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce the Fourth International Conference on Green IT Solutions (ICGREEN 2015), to be held in Milan, Italy, July 9-10, 2015.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Conference on Green IT Solutions (ICGREEN 2015)
July 9-10, 2015, Milan, Italy
http://www.icgreen.org/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Paper submission deadline: 9 March 2015
Position Paper submission deadline: 23 March 2015
Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2015
Final paper submission: 4 May 2015.

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ICT and Green are two tightly related concepts. Indeed, ICT systems might support sustainability in different ways. On the one hand, the design of more efficient ICT systems can contribute in decreasing the energy consumption related to ICT that is continuously increasing. For example, in some regions of the world (e.g., US and UK) the energy consumed by the data centers is close to 10% of the total energy consumed in the area by the country. On the other hand, ICT can be used to monitor the impact of other systems (e.g., buildings, transportation) on the environmental sustainability and to support green-aware decisions. The purpose of ICGreen is to bring together researchers and practitioners that deal with the design of Green ICT systems or of ICT use for environmental sustainability.

More information on the Conference can be found at the Conference Web site:
http://www.icgreen.org/

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

SOFTWARE ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Energy efficient software
Green business processes
Green software metrics

GREEN DATA CENTERS
Design of energy efficient data centers
Green monitoring and middleware for systems adaptation
Data centers energy storage and thermal control for energy efficiency
Performance optimization under power constraints

GREEN NETWORKING
Energy efficient communication
Power consumption of networking infrastructure
Power-aware protocols and algorithms
Green network design for high density data centers and cloud computing

RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Renewable energy models and prediction
Green/federated data centers powered by renewable energy systems
Management and control of variability and uncertainty in energy supply and demand

ICT FOR SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS
Software and services for sustainable environment
Using ICT to reduce carbon emissions
Smart grid and microgrids
Smart transportation and manufacturing
Smart buildings and urban development
Climate and ecosystem monitoring

EMPIRICAL STUDIES
User studies and behavioral change enabled by computing and communication technologies
Power measurements and data from empirical studies of computer and communication infrastructure
Industrial experiences

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be presented at ICGREEN 2015 and included in the conference proceedings, published by SciTePress. All presented papers will also be included in the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary) and DBLP-indexed.

Selected papers that have been presented at the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Springer journal "Computing" .


We accept three type of contributions:
Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost finished
Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about and issue
Invited Papers - submitted by best paper authors and ICGREEN former / future Keynotes.


For formatting guidelines and submission instructions please consult the
Paper Submission page at
http://www.icgreen.org/SubissionGuidelines.htm


GENERAL CHAIR
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

PROGRAM CHAIR
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Bernardetta Addis, LORIA, France
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Claudia Canali, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Georges Da Costa, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Parijat Dube, IBM Research, USA
Daniel Gmach, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Jinho Hwang, IBM Research, USA
Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada
Dagmar Koss, Fortiss, Germany
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Riccardo Lancellotti, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alma Riska, NetApp, USA
Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ioan Salomie, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Boris Shishkov, IICREST, Bulgaria
Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA
Giordano Tamburrelli, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jordi Torres, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Usman Wajid, University of Manchester, UK
Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA

Contacts

Address: IICREST c/o B. Shishkov (ICGREEN 2015 Event); P.O. Box 104; 1618 Sofia; Bulgaria
e-Mails: Conference General Chair (Dr. Danilo Ardagna - danilo.ardagna@polimi.it); Program Chair (Dr. Cinzia Cappiello - cinzia.cappiello@polimi.it), Secretariat (secretariat@iicrest.org)
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