EnBIS 2016 - International Workshop on Energy-awareness and Big Data Management in Information Systems

Information Systems are the basis for each organization. Recently, the amount of services has increased exponentially. To improve their efficiency and reduce costs, modern organizations are shifting their services to the Cloud. Lower costs are increasing the demand for cloud services with a consequent increment in the size and kind of information to be stored, processed, and analysed. A question is arising and is becoming a driver for innovation: “Is it sustainable?”. The energy demand in this context is an important aspect that can not be disregarded. This issue has been widely studied under the name of Green Information Systems (Green IS) and Green Information Technologies (Green IT). However, there are still many open challenges. In this workshop we propose to tackle energy-awareness of cloud-based business activities, from the application to the resource management. We focus the attention over the explosion of the Internet of Things ecosystem and the Big Data challenge that arises in modern ISs, which have an impact over the energy consumption due to their maintenance and analysis. The workshop will focus on novel methodologies for the management and measurement of energy efficiency in modern information systems, considering the challenge introduced by Big Data and the opportunity offered by IoT. Topics include but are not limited to:
Energy-aware Information Systems and big data management;
Adaptive approaches and learning-based methods to manage energy consumption and quality of service of applications and systems;
Virtualization and smart deployment of next-generation applications;
Methodologies and tools to support energy efficiency in large scale data centers and clouds;
Energy-awareness and sustainability in IS: metrics and measurements;
Energy efficiency in Mobile Cloud Computing and Internet of Things scenarios