ICT4S 2013 - 1st International Conference on “ICT for Sustainability” (ICT4S 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Extended Deadline: June 11, 2012
1st International Conference on
“ICT for Sustainability”
(ICT4S 2013)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Feb 14 - 16, 2013
http://www.ict4s.org
Background and Objectives
“ICT for sustainability” is about utilizing the transformational power of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for making our world more
sustainable: saving energy and material resources by creating more value from
less physical input, increasing quality of life for ever more people without
compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. While the
potential of ICTs' contribution to sustainability has been increasingly
recognized during the last decades, implementing this potential has proven to
be a challenge.
The ICT4S conference aims to bring together leading researchers from the
technical, natural and social science disciplines:
- to take stock of the role of ICT in sustainability and to improve the methods
of measuring the positive and negative effects of ICT;
- to create an interdisciplinary synopsis, to inspire new approaches to unleash
the potential of ICT for sustainability in various fields of application,
from production to consumption;
- to improve methodologies of evaluating, developing, and governing the effects
of ICT systems on the sustainability of societal and environmental systems.
Invited Speakers
Gian-Luca Bona, Prof., Director General, Empa ? Swiss Federal Laboratories for
Materials Science and Technology
Pierre-Alain Graf, CEO Swissgrid
John A. “Skip” Laitner, Director, Economic and Social Analysis, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
Robert Madelin, Director General, European Commission DG INFSO (tentative)
Jennifer Mankoff, Prof., Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Spreng, Prof. em., ETH Zurich
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Sustainability through ICT
- ICT for energy management and planning:
ICT for energy efficiency, smart energy systems, smart grids, smart
metering, ICT and renewables
- ICT and dematerialization:
ICT for material efficiency, ICT-supported life cycle thinking, ICT and
product-service systems, smart recycling
- Sustainability in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI):
Creating awareness, supporting behavioral changes, empowering the 'green'
consumer with information, supporting design for sustainability
- Other enabling effects of ICT for sustainability:
Other effects of ICT as an enabler of sustainable development may be
addressed as well
2. Sustainability in ICT
- Energy flows induced by ICT and how to reduce their impact:
Energy use in the life cycle of ICT hardware, energy consumption of data
centers, decentralized and renewable power generation for ICT, energy
harvesting, energy-aware and energy-autonomous systems
- Material flows induced by ICT and how to reduce their impact: Scarce
resources used for ICT hardware, electronic waste (e-waste, WEEE),
recycling technologies and schemes, environmental and social impacts of
ICT-related material flows, future electronics
- Green design and green software:
Measuring resource consumption at the level of ICT functions and services,
implications of software architecture on hardware load, the potential of
software to save hardware resources, sustainability in software
engineering, resource-aware software, price transparency in the ICT sector
3. Economic and Political Dimensions
- Rebound effects and how to avoid them:
ICT-induced efficiency and rebound effects, history of ICT-related rebound
effects, theories and models of rebound effects, rebound effects vs.
intended growth, political frameworks for avoiding rebound effects
- Energy markets:
Role of ICT in the deregulation of electricity markets, ICT and dynamic
prices, electronic energy markets, enabling political frameworks for smart
energy use
- Economics of ICT hardware:
Supply security of the resources used in ICT, geopolitical aspects of
critical metals, economics of e-waste recycling, world commodity markets
and ICT
Audience
The ICT4S conference will bring together leading researchers in ICT for
Sustainability with government and industry leaders. Decision-makers with an
interest in using ICT for sustainability, researchers focusing on ICT effects
on sustainability and developers of sustainable ICT systems or applications
should attend this conference.
Submissions
Contributions must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ict4s2....
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee and will be judged on the basis of originality, soundness,
contribution to the conference objectives, quality of presentation, and
appropriate comparison to related work. Submissions must not have been
published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere.
Contributions must be submitted in PDF format, the full papers and final
posters formatted according to the author guidelines which will be published in
July 2012 at http://www.ict4s.org.
Oral presentation submission:
1. Authors are kindly asked to submit an extended abstract of 1000-2500 words
(including references) by June 1, 2012. Extended abstracts will be used for
pre-selection.
2. After pre-selection, authors are requested to submit a full paper of 6-10
pages for review. Full papers are due September 1, 2012. Accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at the
conference and published online.
3. After the conference, some contributions will be selected for post-
conference publication depending on topicality and quality. The authors will be
encouraged to extend and update their contribution for publication either in an
edited volume or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. Details of post-
conference publication will be published in July 2012 at http://www.ict4s.org
Poster submission:
1. Draft posters have to be submitted via the EasyChair system by September 1,
2012.
2. Authors will be notified upon acceptance by October 1, 2012.
3. Camera-ready posters must be submitted by November 1, 2012. Poster authors
may use the conference’s free poster printing service or bring their own
hardcopy to the conference.
For formatting guidelines, details of proceedings and post-conference
publications and the terms and conditions for authors, see http://ict4s.org/
Important Dates
Jun 11, 2012 : Submission of abstracts (extended deadline)
Aug 1, 2012 : Notification of preliminary acceptance
Sep 1, 2012 : Submission of full papers and draft posters
Oct 1, 2012 : Final acceptance
Nov 1, 2012 : Submission of camera-ready papers and posters
Feb 13, 2012 : Pre-conference activities
Feb 14-16, 2013 : Conference
Organizers
* Bernard Aebischer, Dr., Zurich, Switzerland (honorary chair)
* Göran Andersson, Prof., Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Thomas F. Rutherford, Prof., Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Lorenz M. Hilty, Prof., Informatics and Sustainability Research (ISR) Group,
Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (chair)
* Elaine M. Huang, Prof., Zurich People and Computing (ZPAC) Lab, Department
of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
* Wolfgang Lohmann, Dr., Technology and Society Lab, Empa -- Swiss Federal
Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Program Committee (as of February 20th, 2012)
Alain Anglade, ADEME ? French Environment and Energy Management Agency, Valbonne, France
Hans-Knud Arndt, Department for Technical & Operational Information Systems,
University of Magdeburg, Germany
Bernard Aebischer, Zurich, Switzerland
Eric P. S. Baumer, Interaction Design Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Françoise Berthoud, EcoInfo Group, CNRS ? Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Grenoble, France
Matthias Binswanger, School of Business, FHNW ? University of Applied Sciences and
Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland
Freek Bomhof, Information and Communication Technology, TNO, Delft, The Netherlands
Leonardo Bonanni, Media Lab, MIT, and Sourcemap, Cambridge, MA, USA
Nikolaus Bornhöft, Technology and Society Lab, Empa ? Swiss Federal
Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Maurizio Catulli, SPRING ? Sustainable Business Practices Research Interest Group,
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Vlad Coroama, Lisbon, Portugal
Claus-Heinrich Daub, School of Business, FHNW ? University of Applied Sciences and
Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Brugg, Switzerland
Michele De Lorenzi, HPC Co-Location Services, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing
Centre, Manno, Switzerland
Markus Dick, Environmental Campus, Trier University of Applied Sciences,
Birkenfeld, Germany
Lorenz Erdmann, Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and
Foresight, Fraunhofer ISI ? Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation
Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Klaus Fichter, Borderstep Institute, Berlin, and CENTOS ? Oldenburg Center for
Sustainability Economics and Management, and Innovation Management and
Sustainability, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Helena Grunfeld, CSES ? Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria
University, Melbourne, Australia
Maria Håkansson, Culturally Embedded Computing Group, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, USA
Magda David Hercheui, BIMO ? Business Information Management and Operations,
University of Westminster, London, UK
Lorenz M. Hilty, ISR ? Informatics and Sustainability Research Group,
Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, and Empa ? Swiss Federal
Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland
(chair)
Mattias Hojer, CESC ? Centre for Sustainable Communications, KTH Royal Institute
of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
John W. Houghton, CSES ? Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria
University, Melbourne, Australia
Jiří Hřebíček, Environmental Informatics and Modeling, Masaryk University, Brno,
Czech Republic
Ralf Isenmann, Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and
Foresight, Fraunhofer ISI ? Institute for Systems and Innovation Research,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Jordi Cucurull Juan, RTSLAB ? Real-Time Systems Laboratory, Linköping
University, Sweden
Hubert Kaeslin, Microelectronics Design Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Masaaki Katayama, Information and Communications Science Research Division,
EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan
Mikko Kolehmainen, Environmental Informatics, University of Eastern Finland,
Kuopio, Finland
Stacey Kuznetsov, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Patricia Lago, Software Engineering Group, VU University Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Marc van Lieshout, Information and Communication Technology, TNO, Delft, The
Netherlands
Wolfgang Lohmann, Technology and Society Lab, Empa ? Swiss Federal Laboratories for
Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Reinhard Madlener, School of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jennifer Mankoff, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jorge Marx-Gomez, Department of Business Information Systems / VLBA ? Very Large
Business Applications, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Friedemann Mattern, Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
William McIver, NRC-IIT ? National Research Council Institute for Information
Technology, Fredericton, N.B., Canada
Niklaus Meyer, Special Interest Group on Green IT, SI ? Swiss Informatics Society,
Richterswil, Switzerland
Bruno Michel, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Stefan Naumann, Environmental Campus, Trier University of Applied Sciences,
Birkenfeld, Germany
Bruce Nordman, LBNL ? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT ? Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Chris Preist, Cabot Institute and Systems Centre, and Department of Computer
Science, University of Bristol, UK
Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA ? Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
and SUPSI ? University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern
Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland
Alice R. Robbin, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
Bloomington, USA
Thomas Schauer, The Club of Rome - European Support Centre Tuchlauben, Vienna,
Austria
Daniel Schien, Systems Centre, University of Bristol, UK
Giovanna Sissa, Department of Information Technology, University of Milan,
Italy
Jan Studziński, IBS PAN ? Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of
Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Kazue Ichino Takahashi, NTT Energy and Environment Systems Laboratories, Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan
Stephanie Teufel, International Institute of Management in Technology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, Malton, North Yorkshire, UK
Iwona Maria Windekilde, CMI ? Center for Communication Media & Information
technologies, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eric Williams, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & The School
of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Olaf Zimmermann, ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland
Contact:
Prof. Lorenz M. Hilty, Dr. Wolfgang Lohmann
ict4s-AT-ifi.uzh.ch
http://www.ict4s.org