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FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SERVICES, ENERGY, AND ECOSYSTEM (SEE2010)

held in conjunction with ICSOC 2010, December 7-10, 2010, San Francisco, USA

http://see.ws.dei.polimi.it/

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MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
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Although significant progress has been made in the recent years in making computing greener - energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable - the net impact of improvements in energy efficiency is generally more than offset by increasing demand for computing power and capacity, driven by new digitized business processes and services. The total energy consumption has been increasing due to proliferation of computers, data centers and various types of mobile computing and communication devices, as well as by the emergence of, and demand for, new applications. To address this issue holistically, there is now call for making applications and services themselves energy-aware and -efficient. New innovative ICT-based tools for monitoring and managing energy consumption in several application have emerged, and novel approaches for creating energy-aware systems and applications are being developed to create a better and sustainable ecosystem.

The first international workshop on Services, Energy, and Ecosystem (SEE 2010) focuses
on creating sustainable (green) energy-efficient services and fostering the growth towards a new eco-friendly world of services. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary fields working on energy-aware and energy-efficient systems and applications to share their contributions in this area and for interactive discussions to set an agenda for further work in this important new area.





TOPICS OF INTEREST
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SEE 2010 welcomes research submissions and real-world experiences on all topics
related to Services, Energy, and Ecosystems - engineering energy-efficient systems,
applications and services; monitoring, and managing energy-aware services;
fostering ecosystems in organizations and society, and others.


Engineering Energy-Efficient Systems, Applications and Services:
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Sustainable Service Engineering; Sustainable Service Management; Adaptive Service Designing; Energy-efficient Service Provisioning; Energy-efficient Networking and Protocols; Energy-efficient Resources Utilization; Energy Optimization in Application system and Storage systems; Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems;
Grid/Cloud/Data Center Technology as Sustainability/Greenness Enablers;
Virtualization/consolidation; Energy-efficient Methodologies for Infrastructure as a Service/Platform as a Service/Software as a Service Models; Efficient Cooling and Power Distribution; Service Resources Modeling and Management; Service Composition and Energy Consumption Analysis; Green Service Life Cycle Management; Service Orientation in Data centers.


Monitoring and Managing Energy-Aware Services:
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Key Performance Indicators and Green Performance Indicators; Energy and Performance Profiling; Tools and Techniques for Monitoring Energy; Performance and Quality of Service Trade-off; Energy Consumption and Energy Efficiency Analysis; Facility Monitoring/Measurement Approaches; Service/Process Mining; Sustainability Scorecards; Sustainability Auditing; Green Certificates; Green Maturity Models.


Fostering Ecosystems In Organizations and Society:
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Service Chain Management; Energy use and Total Cost of Ownership; Service Economics;
Energy Efficient Services procurement/Acquisition; After-Sales Services;
Business Models for Sustainable Services; Corporate Social Responsibility;
Environmental Compliance and Legal Regulations/Policies; Risk Management;
Organization culture and Energy Use; Knowledge Management for Service;
Best Practices for Sustainable/Green Services; Public and Private Sectors Practices and Experiences (case studies)




ORGANIZERS
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Schahram Dustdar Technical University of Vienna, Austria
G.R. Gangadharan Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Patricia Lago VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
San Murugesan University of Western Sydney, Australia
Barbara Pernici Politecnico di Milano, Italy




IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: September 01, 2010
Notification: October 01, 2010
Camera Ready Copy: November 01, 2010
Workshop Date: December 7, 2010




SUBMISSION DETAILS

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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers.
Papers should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages, strictly
following Springer LNCS style.

Peer-reviewed SEE workshop papers will be published as part of the ICSOC workshop proceedings. Workshop proceedings are planned for publication by Springer-Verlag.

Full research papers should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer
LNCS style format describing novel solutions to relevant problems.

We also welcome a stream for short papers for work-in-progress and/or
position statements (particularly, from industry). Short papers (position papers /
work-in progress papers) should not exceed 6 pages in Springer LNCS style format
describing particular challenges or experiences relevant to the scope of the workshop.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop.
Please see details at the ICSOC website: http://www.icsoc.org/

If you have any queries about the workshop, please contact
gangadharan[at]elet[dot]polimi[dot]it or geeyaar[at]gmail[dot]com.