[AISWorld] Call for Special Sessions - ICGREEN 2015

[Cinzia Cappiello]

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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 SPECIAL SESSIONS
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
Special Session Proposal submission deadline: 15 February 2015
Special Session Submission papers: 23 March 2015
Notification of acceptance: 23 April 2015

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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. 

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 

ORGANIZE A SPECIAL SESSION
We accept proposals for the organization of special sessions. 
The session should focus on a very specific topic. Please, send your session title, the estimated number of registered papers, the list of potential reviewers and your CV to icgreen2015 at easychair.org


The sessions will be inserted in the conference program and advertised on the conference Web page.  Papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by SciTePress.  The authors of the best paper will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue published by the Springer “Computing” journal. 

The session chair is in charge to manage the publicity of the session while the revision process will be managed at the conference level. 


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, Clarkson University, USA
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 at polimi.it); Program Chair (Dr. Cinzia Cappiello - cinzia.cappiello at polimi.it), Secretariat (secretariat at iicrest.org)