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CALL FOR PAPERS
9-10 July
ICGREEN 2015
SUBMIT YOUR PAPER BY 9
MARCH 2015
Website: http://www.icgreen.org
Fourth International Conference
Milan, Italy
on Green IT Solutions
The conference is organized by IICREST, co-organized by Politecnico di Milano.
Cooperating organizations are: AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, SIKS - the
Nederlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems, CTIT - the
U-Twente Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, and AMAKOTA Ltd.
General Chair:
Dr. Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Program Chair:
Dr. Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keynote Lecturer:
Dr. Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
ICT and Green are two tightly related concepts. ICT systems in fact 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.
We welcome paper submissions from but not limited to the following areas and topics:
1. SOFTWARE ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Energy efficient software
Green business processes
Green Software metrics
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
Key dates
Types of contributions
Paper formats
Paper submission deadline: 9 March 2015
Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2015
Final paper submission: 4 May 2015
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
Full Papers - 10-page limit in the conference proceedings
(oral presentation)
Short Papers - 6-page limit in the conference proceedings
(oral presentation)
Posters - 4 page limit in the conference proceedings
(poster presentation)
Program Committee
Bernardetta Addis, LORIA, FR; Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, NL
Claudia Canali, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT; George Da Costa, Universite Paul Sabatier, FR
Parijat Dube, IBM Research, USA; Daniel Gmach, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Jinho Hwang, IBM Research, USA; Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, CA
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, CA; Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, NL
Riccardo Lancellotti, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT; Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, RO
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, IT; Alma Riska, NetApp, USA
Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico di Milano, IT; Ioan Salomie, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Boris Shishkov, IICREST, BG; Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA
Giordano Tamburrelli, VU University Amsterdam, NL; Jordi Torres, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ES
Usman Wajid, University of Manchester, UK; Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA
Submission to ICGREEN’15 will be electronically managed via EasyChair.
Papers can be submitted by using the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgreen2015
Publication
Accepted papers will be presented at ICGREEN 2015 and included in the symposium
proceedings, published by SciTePress. All presented papers will also be included in
the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary) and DBLP-indexed.
Venue
The ICGREEN sessions will be held at Aula Beltrame - Politecnico di Milano, one of the most outstanding universities in Europe, ranked 28th in the world and 9th in Europe among
technical universities, according to The QS World University Ranking. Milan itself is considered the Italian economic and finance center, with the headquarter of the Stock Exchange
and of many of the most important industrial and financial businesses of Italy, having a population of 1.3 million. It is also the Italian symbol of fashion and design: it hosts many of the
main Italian fashion maisons and international design fairs, such as “Settimana della Moda” (Milan Fashion Week) and the “Salone Internazionale del Mobile” (Milan Furniture Fair).
The city offers to visitors the possibility to admire a wide range of monuments, museums and buildings reflecting the vestiges of history and culture left by the people who lived here.
The ancient Roman remains, the Duomo, one of the largest cathedrals in the world and an important example of Gothic architecture in Italy. The Castello Sforzesco that hosts the
Michelangelo’s “Pietà Rondanini”. The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie where is the famous masterpiece “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci. Expo 2015 is the next scheduled
Universal Exposition and between 1 May and 31 October 2015 will be hosted in Milan. The Expo goal is no longer to show the latest advances in technology, but rather to address the
challenges that human mankind faces nowadays. The Expo’15 theme will be: Feeding the planet, energy for life. It would be therefore great hosting ICGREEN 2015 in Milan, an particularly at Politecnico di Milano, founded in 1863. Many important scientists and architects studied and taught there, among them Achille Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, Renzo Piano and Aldo
Rossi, both Pritzker Prize in 1990 and 1998 respectively, and Giulio Natta, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963. Politecnico takes part in several research and training projects collaborating with the most qualified European universities. Politecnico’s contribution is increasingly being extended to other countries: from North America to Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe.
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