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GREENS 2012
First Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS)

http://greens.cs.vu.nl

In conjunction with the 34rd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012) www.ifi.uzh.ch/icse2012
Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-9, 2012
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Important Dates:

17th February 2012 - paper submission
19th March 2012 - notification of acceptance
29th March 2012 - camera-ready
3rd June 2011 - workshop
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Workshop theme and goals
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The Focus of the GREENS workshop is the engineering of green and sustainable software. Our goal is to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss research initiatives, challenges, ideas, and results in this critically important area of the software industry. To this end GREENS will both discuss the state of the practice, especially at the industrial level, and define a roadmap, both for academic research and for technology transfer to industry. GREENS seeks contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following list of topics:

Concepts and foundation
* Definition of sustainability properties (e.g. energy and power consumption, green-house gases emissions, waste and pollutants production), their relationships, their units of measure, their measurement procedures in the context of software-intensive systems, their relationships with other properties (e.g. response time, latency, cost, maintainability)
* Green architectural knowledge, green IT strategies and design patterns

Greening domain-specific software systems
* Energy-awareness in mobile software development
* Mobile software systems scalability in low-power situations
* Energy-efficient techniques aimed at optimizing battery consumption
* Large and ultra-large scale green information systems design and development (including inter-organizational effects)

Greening of IT systems, data and web centers
* Methods and approaches to improve sustainability of existing software systems
* Customer co-creation strategies to motivate behavior changes
* Virtualization and offloading
* Green policies, green labels, green metrics, key indicators for sustainability and energy efficiency
* Data center and storage optimization
* Analysis, assessment, and refactoring of source code to improve energy efficiency
* Workload balancing
* Lifecycle Extension

Greening the process
* Methods to design and develop greener software systems
* Managerial and technical risks for a sustainable modernization
* Quality & risk assessments, tradeoff analyses between energy efficiency, sustainability and traditional quality requirements

Case studies, industry experience reports and empirical studies
* Empirical data and analysis about sustainability properties, at various granularity levels: complete infrastructure, or nodes of the infrastructure (PCs, servers, and mobile devices)
* Studies to define technical and economic models of green aspects
* Return on investment of greening projects, reasoning about the triple bottom line of people, planet and profits
* Models of energy and power consumption, at various granularity levels
* Benchmarking of power consumption in software applications


Workshop Organizers:
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Patricia Lago (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Rick Kazman (University of Hawaii, USA)
Niklaus Meyer (Green IT SIG, Swiss Informatics Society, Switzerland)
Maurizio Morisio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Hausi A. Mueller (University of Victoria, Canada)
Frances Paulisch (Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany)
Giuseppe Scanniello (Università della Basilicata, Italy)
Olaf Zimmermann (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland)

Program committee
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Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Luca Ardito, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Ioannis Athanasiadis, Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Greece
Rami Bahsoon, University College London, UK
Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University, Sweden
Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Canada
Hakan Erdogmus, Things Software
Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK
Matthias Galster, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Qing Gu, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wolfgang Lohmann, Informatics and Sustainability Research, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
Lin Liu, School of Software, Tsinghua University, China
Alessandro Marchetto, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Henry Muccini, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Stefan Naumann, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Environmental Campus, Germany
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Giuseppe Procaccianti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Filippo Ricca, University of Genova
Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Tech., Australia
Antonio Vetro’, Fraunhofer IESE, USA
Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group and Knowledge Network Green Software, Netherlands
Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK

Guidelines for Submission
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We are soliciting papers in two distinct categories:
* Research papers describing innovative and significant original research in the field (maximum 8 pages);
* Industrial papers describing industrial experience, case studies, challenges, problems and solutions (maximum 8 pages).

Please submit your paper online through EasyChair (see the GREENS website). Submissions should be original and unpublished work. Each submitted paper will undergo a rigorous review process by three members of the Program Committee. All types of papers must conform to the ICSE submission format and guidelines. All accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.