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3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems – SMARTGREENS 2014

Website: http://www.smartgreens.org

April 4 - 5, 2014

Barcelona, Spain

Regular Papers

Regular Paper Submission: October 3, 2013 
Regular Paper Authors Notification: January 17, 2014 
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: January 31, 2014

 

Sponsored by:

INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

INSTICC is Member of:

WfMC - Workflow Management Coaliton

OMG - Object Management Group

 

Logistics Partner:

SCITEVENTS – Science and Technology Events

 

Scope:

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

SMARTGREENS 2014 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

All 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 (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.

 

AWARDS

The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session.

Please check the website for further information: http://www.smartgreens.org/BestPaperAward.aspx

 

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:

Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

 

PROGRAM CHAIR

Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

 

CONFERENCE AREAS:

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SMART GRIDS
2. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
3. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS
4. SMART CITIES

 

AREA 1: SMART GRIDS 

• Real-Time Systems
• Architectures for Smart Grids
• Smart Grids Modeling
• Smart Grid Specific Protocols
• Scalable Infrastructures for Smart Grids
• Load Balancing in Smart Grids
• Smart Grid Security and Reliability
• Smart Grids and Renewable Technologies
• Sensors for Smart Grids
• Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery in Smart Grids
• Integration of Smart Appliances
• Smart Homes (Domotics)
• Interoperability and strategies to meet communications demands
• Real time analytics and self-healing grid capability

 

AREA 2: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES 

• Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption
• Economic Models of Energy Efficiency
• Greener Systems Planning and Design
• Energy Monitoring
• Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption
• Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies
• Energy Profiling and Measurement
• Renewable Energy Resources
• Embedded Sensor Networks
• Energy Management Systems (EMS)
• Driving innovation in energy storage
• Virtual Power Plants
• Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications

 

AREA 3: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS 

• Green Data Centers
• Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat
• Qos and Green Computing
• Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools
• Virtualization Impact for Green Computing
• Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms
• Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
• Energy Efficient Network Hardware
• Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols
• Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications
• Educational Ecosystems
• Ecological monitoring, analytics and visualization
• Low power wireless communication technologies

 

AREA 4: SMART CITIES 

• User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart Cities
• Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments
• Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services
• Mechanisms for Motivating Behaviour Change
• Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities
• Cloud Computing and Service Models for Smart City Solutions
• e-Work and e-Business Applications
• Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities
• Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management
• Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications
• IS Architecture Designs and Platforms for Smart Cities
• Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Smart(er) Cities
• Integrating renewable energy sources into the smart cities grid
• Harvesting energy with customer participation
• Microgeneration
• Frameworks and models for Smart City Initiatives

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

http://www.smartgreens.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.smartgreens.org)

The GEO Appathon is a global App development competition that aims to develop new, exciting, and - most importantly - useful Apps using Earth observation data from the free and expansive Earth Observation data sets in the GEOSS public database.

The first ever GEO Appathon kicks off on Wednesday 7 May 2014 and runs until 31 August 2014. Participation is open to any non-commercial entity, individual and team from any background in any country. Apps can be created for any of the main operating systems and be designed for any type of portable device. All Apps will be judged by our panel (including Microsoft and ESRI) and the top 3 winners will receive a cash prize and a year-long GEO network endorsement and publicity for the App.

Visit our GEO Appathon website (www.geoappathon.org) for more rules, details of how to register and information about how you can help us unleash the potential of Earth observation data!

https://tnc2014.terena.org/core/event/13

With each passing year, sustainability becomes a more relevant topic for Higher Ed institutions and networks. To date most institutions and NRENs have been focusing on how to mitigate against Climate Change by adopting various green policies and energy efficiency initiatives. But another important aspect of the reality of Climate Change is adaptation or preparedness. We are already committed to a 2C average temperature increase because of the accumulation of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in our atmosphere since the industrial age. And if we continue on our current trajectory of increasing GHG emissions the world may warm up by as much as 5C by the end of the century. Even a 2C global average temperature increase is going to result in significantly greater frequency of severe weather events such as flooding, droughts, hurricanes, etc

Many scientists are now arguing that we must spend an equal effort on adaptation or preparedness for Climate Change as we do on mitigation. Some governments are already mandating institutions and other organizations to start to prepare Climate Change Preparedness plans. For example President Obama has recently issued an Executive order for all US government departments and agencies to develop such plans. It is expected that many European governments will soon adopt similar policies.

The purpose of this BOF is to discuss and explore how NRENs and HE institutions can develop Climate Change Preparedness plans. These plans will help them to identify aspects of their networks and services that may be susceptible to Climate Change events such as flooding and major long term outages in the electrical grid. The plans will also help them to develop strategies to makes their institutions or networks more resilient or robust. The other important part of the discussion in the BOF is to explore how NRENs can help HE institutions become more resilient and robust in the event of extreme weather related events due to Climate Change

The results of the BoF will also be picked up/activated in the GN3+ Green Team and discussed with TERENA and DANTE.

Between Monday 19 May and Friday 23 May
8 European Green IT players will present their solutions or projects :

On Monday 19th May:
From 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
- José OSPINA, Project Manager, MicroPro Computers (Ireland), working on the development of iameco green computers.

On Tuesday 20th May:
From 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
- Eva KERN, Research associate at Green Software Engineering project (Germany), which aims at applying “Green” principles on software processes.

On Wednesday 21st May:
From 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
- Sean CRONIN, CEO of EnergyWatchIT (Ireland), with their Green IT policy management tool to reduce IT electricity costs.
From 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM
- Olivier PHILIPPOT, chairman of Green Code Lab, Web Energy Archive project in order to measure the energy consumption of websites

On Thursday 22nd May:
From 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Thomas CORVAISIER, manager of The Green Little Men, design of a smartphone application called Greeniscore to increase battery life of smartphones
From 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
- Eric RONDEAU, Coordinator of Erasmus Mundus Master program in Pervasive Computing and Communications for Sustainable Development (PERCCOM) gathering 4 European Universities.

On Friday 23rd May:
From 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Thierry LEBOUCQ, manager of Kaliterre, Greenspector presentation, a tool detecting consuming objects in computer source codes.
From 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
- Valentina GRILLEA, Project Manager, MFG Baden Wurttemberg (Germany), a centre of excellence for ICT presenting the Alpine Space Project FIDIAS on Financial Instrument for SMEs from the Green IT sector

For the 12th time the Technical Committee „Informatics for Environmental Protection“ of the German Informatics Society will award the “Environmental Informatics Prize". The prize is awarded for students’ works in the field of environmental informatics. Such work takes the form of projects undertaken either as part of a course or for a degree (excluding PhD) at an academic university or a university of applied sciences. The projects must demonstrate the contribution of methods and technologies of informatics to the solution of environmental problems or dissemination of information supporting sustainable development in general.

The winners will be invited to present their work at EnviroInfo 2014 - ICT for energy efficiency, the 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection to be held in Oldenburg, Germany: http://www.enviroinfo2014.org/

ACM e-­‐Energy 2014

The Fifth International Conference on Future Energy Systems June 11-13, 2014, Cambridge, UK.
Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Fifth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-­‐Energy), where energy, computing and communication meet.

After the successful experiences of Passau (Germany) in 2010, New York City (USA) in 2011, Madrid (Spain) in 2012, and Berkeley (USA) in 2013, this fifth edition will be held in Cambridge (UK), on June 11-13, 2014.

This year we are proud to present an exciting technical program including 23 high quality papers, and 16 posters and demos presenting the state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art research carried out by universities, research centers and companies in the broad areas of computing and communication for smart energy systems (including the smart grid), and in energy-­‐efficient computing and communication systems.

The technical program will also include Keynotes speakers: Pr. Berend Smit (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Olivier Verscheure (IBM Research).

Detailed information on the conference is available at the following website:

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/eenergy/2014/

he George Washington University Law School (GW Law) will convene the first in a series of events focusing on Next Generation Compliance on March 26 and 27, 2015. The symposium will address the role of advanced monitoring, remote sensing and new forms of information gathering, analysis and disclosure in environmental compliance and enforcement. Erasmus University Rotterdam will hold the second event in April 2015 addressing the use of management systems and the role of behavioral motivations in environmental compliance and enforcement.

This Call for Papers focuses on the GW Law Symposium.

++ Abstracts due by 1 July 2014 to Lee Paddock (lpaddock@law.gwu.edu)

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~bpenzens/2014re4susy/

CONTRIBUTE. JUST DO! - submission by June 2nd
As tomorrows' systems designers, Requirements Engineers have a very important role to play in order to ensure that future socio-technical systems are sustainable. For example, requirements have an important impact on the potential premature obsolescence of hardware, on the electricity consumption of software or on the number of servers needed to offer a service. Further, as ubiquitous socio-technical systems alter the way we live and work, the requirements of those systems have to be carefully written such that those new ways of living and working are more sustainable. For example: how do I invent an Enterprise Management System that will help my company be more responsible and create more value for all stakeholders? More and more, in the industry, companies do not only want to be "ecologically trendy”, but also become aware that sustainability requirements will have strategic impacts on business organization and value creation.

This workshop provides an interactive stage for researchers and practitioners to share current challenges and results in RE for sustainable systems. But more than discussion, we want to foster action, and aim at jumpstarting collaboration through the live creation of hybrid teams that commit to work together to make a better world for our little mascot Susy (see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~bpenzens/2014re4susy/).
This workshop is concerned with why and how social and environmental sustainability impact the way we design systems, at a non technical level, i.e. at requirements time. In particular, themes include: understanding RE4SuSy; adapting/inventing RE4SuSy techniques and tools; modeling, defining, measuring, and assessing sustainability in RE, etc. We are open to any bit of research or well thought practice that will let us understand better how to design more sustainable systems. We welcome problem statements, visions, positions, controversies, technical solutions, experience reports, lessons learned from practice and any results under any of the following forms:

+ short papers of up to 6 pages
+ posters, accompanied by a 2-page extended abstract
+ video clips of up to 5 minutes, accompanied by a 2-page extended abstract
+ contributions in any other multi-media format accompanied by a 2-page extended abstract.

Given the transdisciplinary nature of sustainability concerns, we particularly welcome contributions that involve hybrid co-authorship.
We offer shepherding, should you wish help in writing your first contribution to a scientific workshop, or in our community.
Check past editions, important deadlines, program committee and formatting instructions on the workshop's site:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~bpenzens/2014re4susy/
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RE4SuSy is held at RE'14, the premier venue for discussing Requirements Engineering Research and Practice.
Submission: June 2
Notification: June 23
CR version: July 2
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Note that possibilities for virtual participation are under examination, just in case you already passed your CO2 and $$ limits for travels...

http://www.enviroinfo2014.org

The EnviroInfo 2014 is the 28th edition of the long standing and established international and interdisciplinary conference series on leading environmental information and communication technologies. Combining and shaping national and international activities in the field of applied informatics and environmental informatics in making the world a better place for living, the EnviroInfo conference series aims at presenting and discussing the latest state-of-the-art development on ICT and environmental related fields.

Under the supervision of the the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg the 28th EnviroInfo conference will discuss the special topic of ICT for energy efficiency as main conference theme as well as the whole range of cross-cutting topics in ICT and environmental sciences.

As the EnviroInfo conference series tries to strengthen the interdisciplinary activities in the fields of sustainable development, participants from industry, higher education and research institutes will be invited to exchange ideas and solutions for current and future problems.

http://www.enviroinfo2014.org/index.php/energy-aware-software-engineering-and-development/

Paper submission deadline: June 20, 2014

Software Engineering aims at developing and evolving software systems in an economic manner, considering project specific needs and quality goals. One of these quality goals, which becomes more and more important, is the “energy efficiency of software systems”. Improving the energy consumption of mobile devices will not only increase the uptime and battery lifespan, it will also improve the carbon footprint. Viewing energy efficiency is not only restricted to mobile devices, it also affects e.g. embedded systems and data centres, where energy is a major factor in costs and environmental burden.

Next to serious and ongoing efforts in hardware design, at the operating system level and by optimized code generation, software engineering techniques also contribute to optimizing energy consumption by improving software design: wasting energy can be avoided by e.g. removing energy code-smells, improving data-base queries and storage methodologies, replacing fast, but energy-consuming components by slower but more energy efficient alternatives or by transferring functionality to the cloud, where integrated energy optimization on all technical levels can be applied. This list gives only some examples of optimizing energy consumption on software level. These and further approaches will be discussed at EASED.

The EASED workshop series on Energy-Aware Software Engineering and Development focusses on the intensive presentation and discussion of methods and technologies to optimize the energy consumption of systems by improving software components in software-intensive, embedded systems. Among others, these include techniques to:
· Detect energy code-smells,
· Optimize code,
· Avoid energy waste,
· Measure energy consumption caused by software, and
· Model software-caused energy behaviour of embedded systems.

EASED@EnviroInfo follows up on the Workshop on Developing Energy-Aware Software Systems (EEbS 2012), held at the annual GI Conference in September 2012 (http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/medien/mobile-media/eebs-2012.html), 2nd workshop on Energy-Aware Software Engineering and Development (EASED@BUIS), held at BUIS Tage in April 2013 (http://www.se.uni-oldenburg.de/eased2013), and the 3rd workshop on Energy-Aware Software Engineering and Development (EASED@GI 2013), held together with the workshop "UINW - Umweltinformatik zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Wandel" at the GI Conference in September 2013 (http://www.se.uni-oldenburg.de/preprocess.php?seite=61345.html&include0=generated-content/gi2013.html).

Publications
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Accepted papers for ESEAD@EnviroInfo will be published in the workshop section of the EnvrioInfo 2014 proceedings. Authors of the best paper at ESEAD@EnviroInfo will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the "EnviroInfo 2014 Selected Papers" publication issued by Springer.

Submissions
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Authors are encouraged to submit their papers (6 pages following the EnviroInfo Layout (http://enviroinfo2014.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/EnviroInfo2014Format.dotx) not later than June 6, 2014 through Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enviroinfo2014). When submitting, please tick "Workshop: Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development".

Important Dates
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paper submission deadline: June 20, 2014
author notification: July 4, 2014
2014 camera ready deadline: July 18, 2014

Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/

Key dates:
Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014
Notification: September 25, 2014
Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014

Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm

Publication:
Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Special issues:
Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.

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Introduction

Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment.

SuSC (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications.

Scope and Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications
?? Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature
?? Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat
?? Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems
?? Power-aware Networking
?? Real-time systems
?? Power-efficient Computing Architectures
?? Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting
?? Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices
?? Configurable and Renewable Energy
?? Low Power Electronics
?? Energy Efficient Network Hardware
?? Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols
?? Low power Communication Technologies
?? Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs
?? Power Leakage and Dissipation
?? Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management
?? Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation
?? Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks
?? Security and Privacy
?? Wearable Computing
?? Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization
?? Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
?? Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing
?? QoS and Green Computing
?? Integration of Smart Appliances
?? Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools
?? Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing
?? Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications
?? Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms

Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies
?? Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids
?? Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing
?? Energy Management Systems (EMS)
?? Economic Models of Energy Efficiency
?? Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement
?? Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind)
?? Greener Systems Planning and Design
?? Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption
?? Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications
?? Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies
?? Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption
?? Reliability of Power-aware Computers
?? Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving
?? Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance
?? Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems
?? Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
?? Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings

Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications
?? Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies)
?? Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services)
?? Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery
?? Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures
?? Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management
?? Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy
?? Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management
?? Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement
?? Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management
?? Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things
?? Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support
?? e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications
?? Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management
?? Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization
?? User-Centred Services and Systems
?? Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability
?? Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments
?? Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change
?? Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities
?? IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability
?? Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm.

Publications

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.

General Chairs
Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia

Program Chairs
Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Program Vice-Chairs
Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan

Workshop Chairs
Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

Steering Committee
Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)
Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain
Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit?? Paul Sabatier, France
Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia
Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

Local Organization Chair
Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Finance Chair
Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Conference Secretary and Web Chair
Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

3rd International Conference on
Eco-Friendly Computing and Communication Systems
18-21 December 2014
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Mangalore, India
www.iceccs2014.nitk.ac.in

Call for Papers

‘Computing and Communication for Sustainable Development’ is the theme of the Conference on Eco-Friendly Computing and Communication Systems (ICECCS 2014) which will be held 18-21 December 2014 at NITK Surathkal, Mangalore, India. ICECCS 2014 is the third in the series organised by NITK Surathkal. The past two conferences have been highly successful and well-commended, and we strive to further enrich quality and relevance of the conference this year.

The conference will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research and practice on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing, and computing for a more sustainable planet. It will feature keynotes by eminent persons in this area, presentation of peer-reviewed articles, panels, workshops, and tutorials. The conference will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE, and the proceedings will be published by IEEE Digital Library, Xplore. Selected papers will be recommended for the publications in reputed journals, including special issues, following further update and revision.

We invite prospective authors to submit original high quality articles for presentation at the conference on any of the following major areas or other related topics (for further details on topics of interest visit the conference Website):
· Sustainable Computing
· Computing for Sustainability
· Energy-efficient (green) Computing
· Energy-efficient (green) Communications
· Sustainable Service Computing and Management
· Sustainable ICT
· Sustainable Engineering
· Green/Energy-efficient Engineering
· Cloud Computing
· Big Data and Analytics

Submission Details
The papers submitted to this conference shouldn’t have been already published or shouldn’t be currently under review by another conference or journal. Acceptance will be based on the paper’s originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and relevance/interest to the conference participants. Please prepare your paper as per IEEE two- column conference proceedings format, and the number pages shouldn’t exceed six. Submit it through EasyChair at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs20141.

Important Dates
Paper submissions due: 2 July 2014
Notifications to authors: 1September 2014
Camera-ready papers due: 8 September 2014
Author Registration: 1November 2014
Conference: 18– 21December 2014
Pre-Conference Tutorials: 18 December
Main Conference: 19-20 December
Post–Conference Workshop: 21 December

Contact for Further Details
ICECCS 2014 Conference Secretariat
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Mangalore 575 025, India
Email: iceccs.conference@gmail.com
Web: www.iceccs2014.nitk.ac.in