ICGREEN 2011 - The International Conference on Green Computing, ICGREEN 2011

The International Conference on Green Computing, ICGREEN 2011, focuses on the role of computing, or information technology, to accomplish more eco-responsible behavior of people. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are interested in both computing and the possible impact of computing on the environment, and who are committed to work on the development of eco-effective technologies and technology applications.

From ‘Silent Spring in the 60’s’ to the current United Nations Millenium Declaration, people and countries have been increasingly encouraged to achieve better management, conservation and sustainable development of all resources provided by nature. Although views may differ, most scientists would attribute a key role to technology in achieving this. Information technology, in particular, can provide monitoring facilities, control systems, intelligent construction models and so on. From a scientific point of view we especially welcome input considering the promise that Service-Oriented Architectures hold as an enabler of sophisticated mechanisms that would support a transition to or monitoring of environment-friendly solutions.

The four directions in which we are envisioning the impact of the conference are: (i) ICT to create awareness for 'green behavior'; (ii) ICT to support 'green behavior'; (iii) ICT to allow for analyzing social or technical systems with respect to 'green properties'; (iv) ICT as a sector itself to become 'greener'.

AREAS & TOPICS
We invite researchers and practitioners to present their innovative ideas concerning either 'Inside' solutions (that relate to the purpose of making the IT industry greener) or 'Outside' solutions (that relate to the support of ICT for intelligent management of energy consumption, efficient sharing of resources, and greener behavior of humans, and at the same time addressing either Effectiveness (no waste being produced) and/or Efficiency (pushing for less consumption).

CONFERENCE AREAS
Considering the defined scope and other elaborations regarding ICGREEN'11, we provide below the following list of conference areas:

1. Intelligent Management of Energy Consumption and CO2 Output
2. Computing Platforms that Support Efficient Sharing of Resources
3. ICT Applications that Facilitate Green Behaviour of Humans
4. Research and Design as Inspiration for Greening the IT Industry

Papers should address one or more of these areas which are further elaborated below. Authors may address one or more of the topics that are listed below whose list is however not exhaustive. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable provided they fit in one of the topic areas.

AREA 1: Intelligent Management of Energy Consumption and CO2 Output
? Energy-efficent Computing
? Monitoring Resource Usage and Energy Consumption
? Controling Resource Usage and Energy Consumption
? Intelligent Energy Management
? Demand Side Energy Management

AREA 2: Computing Platforms that Support Efficient Sharing of Resources
? Green Data Centers
? Virtualization
? Green Power Grid
? Virtual Power Stations
? Smart Grids
? Mobility Related Solutions

AREA 3: ICT Applications that Facilitate Green Behaviour of Humans
? Environment-related Risk Mitigation
? Teleworking
? Green Printing
? Remote Collaboration
? Tele-conferences
? Green Logistics

AREA 4: Research and Design as Inspiration for Greening the IT Industry
? Green Design
? Green Metrics
? Strategies for Deployment and Operation
? Simulation and Gaming
? Hardware Design
? Green IT Lessons (Experience, Case Studies)
? Measuring Environment-related Impact

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria

PAPER SUBMISSION
Check the detailed instructions on how and where to submit a paper.

PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
Papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.

KEY DATES
Conference date: 28-30 July, 2011

Regular Paper Submission: February 15, 2011
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 29, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2011

CONTACTS
ICGREEN Secretariat
Address: IICREST c/o B. Shishkov

P.O. Box 104

1618 Sofia

Bulgaria
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8638
e-mail: icgreen.secretariat-AT-innov.org
Web: http://www.icgreen.innov.org/