Relevant Events

Who we are

FINESCE stands for Future Internet Smart Utility Services. It is a project in the framework of the EU Future Internet Public Private Partnership (www.fi-ppp.eu) funded in the FP7 program. In 7 trial sites spread over Europe the project demonstrates that the energy revolution is possible if we use the latest hardware and software technology:

• We are looking at smart customers and smart buildings in Malmö (Sweden), Horsens (Denmark) and Madrid (Spain).
• Our partners in Dublin (Ireland) cover the issues of electric vehicles including load balance service to the electricity grid.
• In Köln and Aachen (Germany) we investigate cross-border Virtual Power Plants in combination with a smart factory that is flexible in its energy consumption.
• In Terni (Italy) we implement an electronic market place where actors of a future smart energy system can trade their consumption and generation capacity on a local market.

All trial sites work with new standard internet software components that have been developed in the FI PPP framework. These "generic and domain specific enablers” with open APIs offer a broad range of basic functions to create specific applications in an easy and cost-effective way.

What we offer

We can support ideas for ICT applications in the energy and energy related sector. The new services shall prove that the emerging smart energy market offers a wide range of new business opportunities. From successful participants we expect a business concept and a mock-up or demonstrator which can be further elaborated in the framework of the FINESCE project or in upcoming funding activities of the EU Future Internet Program.

Via an open call procedure we especially invite SMEs but also bigger companies and research institutions to present their business oriented ICT ideas. We can take partners with excellent concepts on board of our partnership and provide them with appropriate funding. Winners as well as ”lucky losers” will have the opportunity to further develop their concepts in the framework of the FINESCE innovation community.

The call starts on September 9th. In the same call we are looking for specific support for the FINESCE trial sites. Such specific services range from Advanced Metering Infrastructure and an electric vehicle charge-point management to visualization of energy data and a serious game.

Get to know us in our FINESCE innovation event in Dublin, Ireland!

Meeting FINESCE project partners and representatives from trial sites, you will get a deeper understanding of what we expect from you, what we offer and how you can successfully participate. In addition, we have invited a range of venture capitalists, incubators and business angels that you can meet individually at those events!

Meet us in Dublin!

Please bring a short presentation (99 seconds) about yourself, your ideas and your expectations with you.

Register now! Free of charge. Places are limited.

A workshop organised by REEEP, GBPN and the Semantic Web Company on “How Linked Open Data (LOD) supports Sustainable Development & Climate Change Development” – part of the “Open Development and Sustainability” Program of the Open Knowledge Conference 2013 (OKCon2013) – taking place on 18-09-2013, 11:45 to 13:15, Geneva, Switzerland. This workshop is also supported by the LOD2 project.

Panel members & workshop organisers

Florian Bauer, Operations & IT Director, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
Jens Laustsen, Technical Director, Global Buildings Performance Network
Martin Kaltenböck, Managing Partner & CFO, Semantic Web Company

This session gives an introduction & overview on how Linked Open Data (LOD) can push and support sustainable development and climate change development. Along real world examples by The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP, with data.reegle.info or api.reegle.info) and the Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN, with www.gbpn.org) it will be showcased how these organisations (both NGOs) already use Linked Open Data (LOD) principles and technologies to reach their objectives in sustainable development as well as how this approach supports their vision of knowledge sharing and transparency. In addition to this the Semantic Web Company (SWC) – working in a lot in LOD projects in the field of sustainable development – will provide a short introduction into Linked Open Data (LOD) principles, benefits and best practises.

This session should help interested organisations and individuals to learn more about the benefits and potentials of Linked Open Data (LOD) for sustainable development and climate change development and invites people to discuss use cases & ideas, principles and first steps, bottlenecks and/or pitfalls in the use of Linked Open Data (LOD) to support the respective goals together with the panelists.

This workshop is NOT a pure technical workshop – target groups are: decision makers, project developers & -managers, people interested in / working in the fields of sustainable development and / or climate change development, all types of data workers.

This workshop is also supported by the LOD2 project.

See more details at: http://okcon.org/open-development-and-sustainability/session-6/

Speakers from across the ICT sector will address a range of issues from cloud computing, broadband, ICT infrastructures, ICT skills, cyber security, long term visions on the future and much more. Experts will present details on how to participate in the next EU's Research Programme - Horizon 2020. 

Three thematic plenaries and three parts focusing on different themes of ICT research:

• ICT for Excellent science;
• ICT for Industrial Leadership;
• ICT for Societal challenges.

A special focus wil be on Digital Futures - a journey into 2050's futures and policy challenges.

Detailed programme

‍Green IS for Sustainable Development in Education, Research and Practical Solutions

(ICIS2013 is being held in Milan, Italy from December 15-18, 2013, see http://icis2013.aisnet.org/ )

‍Workshop Chairs:

A/Prof Helen Hasan, University of Wollongong, Past SIGGreen Chair - email for further information
A/Prof Cathy Dwyer, Pace University NY, Past SIGGreen Chair
Dr Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, SIGGreen Chair

‍Workshop Plan

Participants are invited to submit Abstracts outlining their position on topics relevant to Green IS as described below. Alternatively submissions in video or other media are welcome The workshop chairs will assess the Abstracts and invite authors of selected abstracts to participate in a program of events similar to those held by SIGGreen in 2010 and 2012. Accepted Abstract will be published online for public comment and will be scheduled for discussion at a viirtual event. All participants and the IS community will be asked to participate in these discussions. At the ICIS2013 workshop, presenters will give a 10 minute overview of their work followed by audience feedback and discussion. Authors will then be invited to submit a paper to Sprouts incorporating feedback from both the virtual event and the ICIS2013 workshop. These papers will be reviewed and published on Sprouts the AIS e-publishing site http://sprouts.aisnet.org/
Opinion pieces of any length on the role and future of SIGGreen are also welcome.

‍Timetable (subject to change):

Abstracts and other Submissions due: October 11, 2013
Virtual event: Mid November
ICIS Workshop December 14, 2013 
Papers for Sprouts TBA

ICIS Workshop Registration

(registration via the ICIS2013 website http://icis2013.aisnet.org/ )

‍Submission of Abstracts

Abstracts may be submitted in any standard format up to 1,000 words, including title, authos, keywords and references. Alterntively a link to a video presentation may be submitted with a covering email to the SIGGreen email address SIGGreenWorkshop@gmail.com Authors are encouraged to put a short video to introduce themselves on YouTube and to send the link with their Abstract.
Submissions should also indicate whether at least one author will present at the virtual event in November and/or in person at the preICIS 2013 workshop.
Abstracts will be displayed on their own page on this site http://siggreen2013.wordpress.com/

Description:

There is universal realisation of the long term effects of human and business activities on the natural environment. Given the pace and magnitude of environmental deterioration, we are all under increasing pressure to engage in ecologically sustainable practices in addition to pursuing economical and social outcomes. In this context, SIGGreen, a Special Interest Group of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) was formed. The impact and the role of Information Systems (IS) in ecological sustainability have emerged as critical issues. IS academics and practitioners are presented with opportunities to educate, investigate and provide solutions not only to the problem of reducing the ecological footprint of IS but also how the innovative use of IS can transform and reduce the environmental impact of individuals, organisations and society and thus provide leadership in sustainability. This SIGGreen workshop will explore the development, impact and role of IS in sustainability initiatives.

In 2010 and 2012 SIGGreen held programs of activities,each of which included a virtual event and pre-Conference Workshop (ICIS2010 and ECIS2012), to which papers on the general topic of Green IS were submitted, presented and published. We used Wikispaces to support these programs (see http://siggreen-icis2010-workshop.wikispaces.com/ and
http://siggreen2012program.wikispaces.com/) From these programs a set of core themes have been identified to guide and stimulate development of the field of Green IS. In order to continue this process of development we will invite submission of abstract on these themes to the ICIS2013 Workshop leading to papers thatwill be added to the existing SIGGreen Proceedings collection on Sprouts, http://sprouts.aisnet.org/view/organization/SIGGreen.html

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

Modern society aspires to be economically and socially sustainable.
The digital infrastructure underpinning our society allows us to achieve these goals by various mechanisms including online social networks, trust and reputation, peer-to-peer and content sharing, secure transactions and online voting. Such mechanisms however are at increasing risk from cyber attacks, industrial espionage, online fraud and government surveillance; each serving to undermine trust and security at different levels. This conference offers a unique platform to address the issues of cyber security and trust in the context of sustainable societies. Authors are invited to submit original research papers addressing theoretical foundations, modelling and empirical approaches, along with more exploratory work, and position papers to raise open questions.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Cyber Attacks (Phishing, Reputation Attacks)
- Identity, Trust and Trustworthiness
- Privacy, Surveillance and Control
- Reputation Systems and Social Networks
- Security Governance and Public Good
- Human Factors and Behavioural Dynamics
- Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Innovation
- Security Economics, Incentives and Liabilities
- Low Carbon and Resilient City and Transport

Submission and publication

Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. All papers must be written in English. Research papers must not exceed 12 pages in total while position papers must not exceed 6 pages.

At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to register and attend to present their work. Submission of papers is available through EasyChair at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csss2015

All accepted papers will be published in the Working Papers of the
SSN+ (ISSN 2052-8604). Following the conference, a shortlisted set of
papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to be considered for publication in a special issue of Journal of Trust Management (Springer).

Keynote speaker

- Prof. Steve Schneider (University of Surrey, UK)
- Title: “Verifiable Electronic Voting”

Important dates

- Submission of Papers: 1st November 2014
- Notification to Authors: 15th December 2014
- Submission of Camera Ready: 10th January 2015
- Early Bird Registration: 25th January 2015

Program committee co-chairs

- Siraj Ahmed Shaikh (Coventry University, UK)
- Catherine Mulligan (Imperial College, UK)

Program committee

- Debi Ashenden (Cranfield University, UK)
- Anirban Basu (KDDI Laboratories, Japan)
- Eduardo Cerqueira (UFPA, Brazil)
- Tom Chen (City University, UK)
- Paul Curzon (Queen Mary Univ of London, UK)
- Zeynep Gurguc (Imperial College, UK)
- Chris Hankin (Imperial College, UK)
- Vassilis Kostakos (University of Oulu, Finland)
- Paddy Krishnan (Oracle, Australia)
- Santi Phi (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
- Juan E. Tapiador (Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
- Tim Watson (University of Warwick, UK)
- Chris Preist (Bristol University, UK)
- Stefanos Skalistis (EPFL, Switzerland)

Venue

The conference will be held at Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom.

Contact

For further information on Sustainable Society Network+ visit:sustainablesocietynetwork.net

For any queries or further information please contact:
sustainablesocietynetwork.netOR PC Co-chairs:

- Siraj Ahmed Shaikh (s.shaikh@coventry.ac.uk)
- Catherine Mulligan (c.mulligan@imperial.ac.uk)

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Call for Papers and Student Research Abstracts

Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing

http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/

The 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
April 13 - 17, 2015, Salamanca, Spain
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The increasing amount of the energy consumption of today's IT solutions
significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. "Green Computing"
or "Green IT" emphasizes on the need for reducing the environmental
impacts of IT solutions by reducing their energy consumption and their
greenhouse gas emissions. Among others, green computing can be achieved
in software and by software. While greening by software aims at saving
energy (or other resources) by the help of software, greening in software
aims at reducing the environmental impact caused by the software itself.

The Software Engineering Aspects of Green Computing track at the 2015
Symposium on Applied Computing aims to bring together academic and
industrial researchers to share their experience in achieving the
green-ness in and by software. Submissions are encouraged, but not
limited, in the following topics:
* Greenness in Software: which dedicated software engineering methods and tools are required to model, analyze and optimize energy-consumption and carbon dioxide generation of software systems during the software development process?
o Requirement elicitation phase:
* Methods and tools to elicit and model greenness requirements
* Methods and tools to identify and analyze the trade-offs among the functional requirements, greenness requirements themselves and other quality attributes
o Architectural design phase:
* Methods and tools to model greenness attributes of software architecture
* Methods and tools to analyze the trade-offs among the functional requirements, greenness attributes themselves and other quality attributes
* Metrics to evaluate the greenness of software architecture
* Methods and tools to trace greenness attributes to the greenness requirements
* Dedicated architectural patterns to achieve green software
* Refactoring methods energy saving
o Implementation phase:
* (Domain-specific) languages to implement greener software
* Compilation methods to achieve greener software
* IDE support to guide programmers in implementing greener software
* Refactoring methods to make legacy software greener
* Methods and tools to measure the greenness of implementations
* Methods and tools to assess the trade-offs between the functionality, the greenness and other quality attributes
o Testing phase:
* Methods and tools to generate test scenarios to assess the greenness of software
* Energy profiling techniques
o Operational phase:
* Methods and tools to monitor the greenness attributes
* Methods and tools to dynamically adapt the software to fulfill its greenness attributes
* Methods and tools to profile energy consumption and to carbon foot printing
* Metrics to identify energy hotspots
* Greenness by software: which dedicated software engineering methods and tools are required to model, analyze and optimize energy-consumption and carbon dioxide generation of industrial solutions by means of software?
o Industrial case studies such as smart home, smart cities, smart embedded systems
o Methods and tools to make industrial solutions dynamically adaptive in their greenness attributes
o Methods and tools to measure the effect of green-ness by software
o Methods and tools to make hardware greener by software
o Application software for smart control of eco-friendly buildings, thermo-control of data centers, climate monitoring

Student Research Abstracts
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Graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their
research ideas are invited to submit abstracts (minimum of 2-pages and
maximum of 4-pages) of their original un-published and in-progress
research work in the area of Software Engineering Aspects of Green
Computing. For more details, see http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/

Submission Guideline
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All submitted papers must represent original work and can only be submitted
to a single ACM SAC track. Papers submitted to more than one track will be
removed from the conference. There is a limit of 6 pages using the ACM SIG
format. Authors may opt to add 2 additional pages (at extra charge). Please
ensure that the author names and contacts are omitted from the submitted
paper during the initial review phase. Paper submissions must be made
electronically in PDF format via the ACM SAC website
https://www.softconf.com/d/sac2015.

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings.
An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers and posters to be included
in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

Important Dates
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* Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts: September 12, 2014
* Submission of tutorial proposals: September 26, 2014
* Notification of tutorials acceptance: November 3, 2014
* Author notification for papers and SRC abstracts: November 17, 2014
* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: December 8, 2014
* Author registration due date: December 15, 2014

Track Chairs
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Somayeh Malakuti (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
Wolfgang Lohmann (Switzerland)
Mehmet Aksit (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

For more detailed information, please visit
http://www.green-se.net/segc/2015/

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Call for Contributions to
Software Engineering in Society
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<http://2015.icse-conferences.org/call-dates/call-for-contributions/seis>

* Goals *

ICSE 2015 features for the first time the new Track on Software
Engineering in Society (SEIS).

SEIS will provide a forum for discussing the role and impact of
software engineering in a sustainable society that is incrementally
intertwined with ecological changes, social challenges, economic
imperatives and technical demands and opportunities.

* SEIS welcomes *

- innovative, inspiring, thought-provoking research supported by
well-motivated scientific intuition; new research directions;
synergies with other disciplines

- solid research results; empirical studies; research experimentation
bridging the gap between models and reality of a sustainable society

* Scope *

SEIS 2015 seeks papers challenging the role and impact of the software
engineering discipline for a sustainable society, along various
dimensions:

- environmental sustainability: energy, climate change;
- social sustainability: for both organizations, individuals and
citizens, communities;
- economic sustainability: business and economic aspects of software
engineering;
- societal sustainability: software engineering ethics, digital
divide, software engineering implications of, and contribution to,
various aspects of our society, recognition and exploitation of
diversity to benefit software engineering practices;
- technical sustainability: software that can evolve, adapt to
changing requirements, adapt to ever-changing society.

SEIS authors are encouraged to contribute both mature, and novel but
soundly-motivated research. SEIS especially welcomes multi- and
interdisciplinary research showcasing how software engineering can
contribute, and complement, the various sustainability dimensions of
our society.

* Evaluation *

The main criterion for acceptance is the degree to which a paper
matches the aforementioned track goals and scope, and provides
innovation to software engineering, emphasizing the 'Sustainability'
dimension of the track. The SEIS program committee will perform the
assessment according to the following criteria: originality, relevance
and soundness of the proposal, appropriate consideration of relevant
literature, and quality of presentation.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the
program committee.

* Presentation at the conference *

The SEIS sessions will feature a mix of short papers and long papers.

* How to Submit *

All papers must conform at the time of submission to the ICSE 2015
formatting and submission instructions. Short papers must not exceed
four pages, including all text, references, appendices, and
figures. Long papers must not exceed 10 pages, including all text,
references, appendices, and figures. Papers must be submitted
electronically at the SEIS CyberChair submission site
, by the
submission deadline of October 24, 2014 (anywhere on earth).

* Important dates *

Submission deadline: October 24, 2014
Notification to authors: January 21, 2015
Camera ready deadline: February 13, 2015

* SEIS Committee *

Daniela Damian (Co-Chair) University of Victoria Canada
Patricia Lago (Co-Chair) VU University Amsterdam Netherlands

Marco Aiello University of Groningen Netherlands
Rami Bahsoon University of Birmingham UK
Travis Breaux Carnegie Mellon University US
Bernd Bruegge Technische Universität München Germany
Steve Easterbrook University of Toronto Canada
Hakan Ergodomus Carnegie Mellon University US
Steve Fickas University of Oregon US
Anthony Finkelstein University College London UK
Scott D. Fleming University of Memphis US
Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University US
Lorenz M. Hilty University of Zurich and TSL, Empa Switzerland
Rick Kazman University of Hawaii US
Philippe Kruchten University of British Columbia Canada
Filippo Lanubile University of Bari Italy
Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland / MIT Sloan, US
Grace Lewis SEI-CMU US
Walid Maalej University of Hamburg Germany
Maurizio Morisio Politecnico di Torino Italy
Henry Muccini University of L'Aquila Italy
Jurgen Muench University of Helsinki Finland
Hausi Muller University of Victoria Canada
Norberto Patrignani Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Italy
Birgit Penzenstadler University of California, Irvine US
Giuseppe Procaccianti VU University Amsterdam Netherlands
Awais Rashid Lancaster University UK
Maryam Razavian VU University Amsterdam Netherlands
Debra Richardson University of California, Irvine US
Janice Singer National Research Council Canada

* Formatting and submission instructions *

Please review the submission and formatting instructions carefully. Submissions that do not comply with the instructions and size limits will be rejected without review.

Global Hack Site: http://fishackathon.co/

Fishackathon is a public-private partnership that aims to capitalize on the expansion of mobile technology use across the developing world to address sustainable fishery challenges. The annual Fishackathon event calls on coders, designers, creatives, architects, product managers, project managers, oceanographers, fishers, ichthyologist, phycologist, algologist, and beach combers from all around the world to come together to create new applications and tools for use on mobile phones, devices, and other end-solutions, which can help fishers work smarter and more safely in sustainable fishing.

You're being asked to develop a solution which addresses one of the four areas which are challenging our fisheries and oceans today:

• Fisheries Management - drawing on science to find ways to protect fishery resources so sustainable explotation is possible.
• Conservation - preservation, protection, or restoration of the earth's natural environment, natural ecosystems, vegetation, wildlife, and biodiversity.
• Aquaculture - the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of aquatic plants and animals in all types of water environments for food or to enhance recreational, commercial, and ecologically-important species and habitats.
• Traceability - ability to verify the history, location, or application of an item by means of a documented recorded identification. In particular, we are concerned with the fact that any product is manufactured or produced under safe working conditions, by workers that earn a fair wage and use methods that do not damage the environment or people.
To help you with the development of your solution, you can select one of the problem statement as a specific application of your solution. Each problem statement addresses at least one of the categories above.

2015 CKB Outreach Event: Creating a “Climate Knowledge Grid”
An open session and cocktail reception to learn what climate knowledge brokers are doing to connect up climate knowledge, and discuss how your organisation can benefit and ‘plug in’ to the ‘climate knowledge grid’.
14:00-17:30, June 22, 2015 – UN City, Copenhagen and on live stream. Organized by the CKB group jointly with CTCN, CDKN and REEEP

Are you getting lost in an ocean of information?
The fields of climate and development have undergone radical transformations over the past decades as the world has woken up to the perils of climate change. At the same time, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have revolutionised the way we communicate, bringing many benefits – but also new problems. A field once challenged by the lack of reliable and relevant data is now overwhelmed with oceans of information, pouring in from a multitude of sources inhabiting various corners of the climate development community. Today, the challenge is navigating and making sense of this information, overcoming the “portal proliferation syndrome” of climate web sites.
The need for coordination: the role of the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group
The Climate Knowledge Brokers Group (CKB) is a Community of Practice of knowledge brokers operating in the climate and development space who recognized that the current knowledge infrastructure is ineffective in delivering the right knowledge to those who need it, when they need it. In response, the group is creating practical solutions and methods to improve and streamline information sharing, to better steer the flow of knowledge to those who need it, and to engage and connect researchers, practitioners, policy actors and businesses to drive climate resilient development. The vision is to create a connected ‘grid’ for climate knowledge that is flexible, open and adaptable to changing needs and evolving technology.
Information about the Event
Join us at UN City in Copenhagen for a chance to meet some leading members of the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, learn about the emerging vision for this ‘climate knowledge grid’ and how decision-makers and other knowledge users will benefit, and discuss how organizations can ‘plug in’.
Preliminary Agenda
Guests are welcome to come for the whole event, or dip in for part of it.
14:00 Registration, coffee and pastries
14:15 Welcome and introduction to the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group:
Speakers: Florian Bauer (REEEP), Geoff Barnard (CDKN)
14:30 Examples of Climate Knowledge Broker Initiatives (four 2-minute “elevator pitch” presentations)
14:45 Panel Discussion: How do we create an effective ‘Grid’ for climate knowledge? Panel to include:
Jukka Ousukainen (Director, CTCN),
Helena Molin Valdés (Head, CCAC Secretariat),
Martin Hiller (Director General, REEEP),
Ari Huhtala (Deputy CEO, CDKN),
Chair: Geoff Barnard (CDKN)
16:00 Climate Knowledge Fair and Cocktail Reception: Learn about some of the platforms and portals that make up the CKB Group, speak to the people who run them, see demos, and discover how you can benefit from what’s already available online
17:30 End

Registration
To make the organization of the event easier, we kindly ask participants to pre-register for the outreach event via this link before June 18, 2015:
http://goo.gl/cUCbEu
Live Stream and Recording
The event will be streamed live through the support of CTCN, and a recording will be available shortly after. More information will be communicated to registered virtual participants and will be available here: http://goo.gl/Xw3kYx
Contact
If you have any questions about the event or the CKB group, feel free to contact Sigmund Kluckner (CKB Coordination Hub) at sigmund.kluckner@reeep.org.

Download this Announcement as PDF: http://goo.gl/Bm6WI4

Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/greencom2015/demo.htm

Key dates:
*Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 5 October 2015*
Notification of Acceptance: 8 October 2015
Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015

Submission
Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus@gmail.com with the email
subject as "GreenCom 2015 poster demo submission".

Two types of posters and demos:
1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short
paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance
to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short
paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with
regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the
main conference with full registration.

2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended
abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference
proceedings, but will be published on the conference website.

Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference.

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Introduction
Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to
GreenCom 2015. GreenCom 2015 is created to provide a prime international
forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts
to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and
practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic
research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest
for posters and demos include, but not limited to:

Scope and Topics

A. Green Computing and Communication Technologies
• Green infrastructure sustainable design and technologies
• Energy- and power-constrained devices and gateways
• Ultra-low power systems architectures
• Low-power, distributed data processing on sensors
• Energy-efficient M2M wired and wireless communications and networking
• Optimization and/or analysis in green computing and communications
(including core
network optimization)
• Green big data architecture
• Green cloud computing
• Energy efficient networking, communication and protocols
• Energy efficiency in networking, wireless networks and vehicular networks
• Energy efficiency in data centers and large-scale data processing
• Measurement and modeling of energy consumption
• Standardization and benchmark

B. Smart Energy and Smart Grid.
• Smart metering infrastructure and technologies
• Large-scale monitoring, control and demand response
• Advanced data fusion, mining and modeling in smart grid
• Management and control of distributed energy generation, storage and
consumption
• Advanced smart grid applications: grid-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-grid,
Micro-grid
• Renewable energy generation and new energy sources
• Standardization and benchmark

C. Green Society Applications
• Smart sensing systems
• Smart city
• Green vehicle, green home, green buildings and green anything
• Green industrial automation and control
• Intelligent Transport Systems and control

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4422

Deadline for submissions is 15th February 2016, and submissions should be made through the ASA online system, via the link above. But please feel free to email Hannah and/or Antonia if you have any questions:

• antonia.walford.11@ucl.ac.uk
• h.knox@ucl.ac.uk

Best wishes,

Antonia and Hannah

Digital Environmentalisms

Short Abstract:

This panel will explore digital technologies as key aspects in the formation of a contemporary environmental imaginary, and as a potential site for transforming anthropological approaches to human-environmental relations.

Long Abstract:

Environment and energy crises have brought anthropological questions about how humans relate to nature into conversation with concerns to explore the material bases of contemporary political and economic life. Anthropologists working on this interface have shown that such global processes are the outcome of multi-scalar interactions between dynamic material arrangements, human and non-human relationalities, and industries, societies and economies. However, importantly, these global environmental processes are increasingly materialised, manipulated, and mediated by complex informational infrastructures. Digital sensors and databases measure, order and evidence environments in complex and unstable ways; models shape environmental presents, futures and pasts; and environmental data visualisations and products are called upon by diverse stakeholders, from climate sceptics to indigenous activists to anthropologists themselves. This panel will explore what happens to anthropological approaches to energy and the environment when we pay attention to the role of digital technologies in the process of human-environmental becoming.

• What part do digital techniques play in the way in which people imagine and engage environmental processes?
• How does an attention to digital environmentalism provide a way into a more nuanced description of the interplay between ontology and epistemology, materials and symbols, or humans and natures?
• Can the study of digital technologies and practices in other social settings help us understand the processes we confront in digital environmentalism?
• And finally, how does an attention to digital technologies disrupt and re-situate claims as to the role that anthropology should play in the study of environmental and energetic crises?

This Symposium and Summer School aims at exploring the perspective of urban water demand management with a particular attention on modelling and understanding the behaviour of water consumers, the drivers of such behaviour, the role of social norms, economic leverages and water demand management strategies to  promote behavioural change, and the role of Information and Communication Technologies to support the design, implementation and deliver smart solutions for urban water demand management.

The EnviroInfo is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year in September 2016 in Berlin and invites new researchers and PhD students, to share their current research or research proposals with a community that always thrived on new ideas, concepts and research questions. The PhD workshop will focus on bringing PhD students from similar fields together and provide them with a platform where they can network, discuss approaches and challenges as well as present their current state of work. In addition, there will be opportunities to obtain feedback from the established research community.

For more information, see http://enviroinfo2016.org/sessions/phd-workshop-environmental-informatics-envision-concepts-present-approaches-and-discuss-implementations/

Within the EnviroInfo 2016 conference, the research area “New Internet services and technologies for environmental applications and energy infrastructures” will be a focal topic.

 
The topic includes but is not limited to:

• Use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, smart infrastructures and sensor networks in the application fields of environmental protection, sustainability, renewable energy and energy efficiency
• Service and microservice oriented architectures, cloud computing and big data applications for environmental sustainability
• Information provision (including provision for the public), new software architectures and new software systems using IoT, big data or other new Internet technologies and services in the application area
• Environmental monitoring networks and mobile data acquisition

The focal topic will be addressed in a corresponding session track. The objective of these sessions is to present and discuss new developments and trends in the thematic field. The sessions aim at providing an overview about new research and developments in the area and to discuss with software developers and users possible synergistic effects.

Deadline for submission of full scientific papers is March 31, 2016. These papers shall be published in a Springer book or a journal. For work in progress, short contributions and posters (published with ISBN or ISSN or in the book of abstracts), the submission deadline is July 15, 2016. For more information about contributions to the conference and important dates seehttp://enviroinfo2016.org/participation/contributions/.

During past decade IS/IT research has moved beyond its earlier primary
concern regarding the */centrality/*of IS/IT construct to include the
*/vitality/*of IS/IT constructs for a vast array of problem domains. MIS
researchers led the business research in the use of computer networks of
business processes whether it was the use of novel mercantile mechanisms
or the host of behavioral issues associated with anonymized behavior to
nature of virtual office.Information technology fundamentally changed
the problem characteristics, application environment and domain,
incentives of participants, and above all technology provides new ways
to measure and manipulate participants’ incentive. One of the roles of
IS research is to*/pose new questions about old beliefs/*due to
technological advances in IS/IT. We do that because MIS researchers are
the first one to embrace technology as vital component in interaction
with our surrounding environment.

The workshop on Policy, Awareness, Sustainability and Systems (PASS) is
an initiative of Workshop for Information Technology and Systems to
encourage forward looking research in terms of problem domains,
technological and methodological scope and its potential
impact.Information is key to organizing a sustainable environment for
the planet whether it is in terms of creating and managing food supply,
energy, water or embedded devices that will provide new perceptory
abilities to humans in the form of augmented reality and interactive
decision environments.Building, testing, managing and controlling these
new generation of technology would require an understanding that current
data and approaches may not adequately be able to deal with.Yet
appropriate guidelines and policies must be developed to avoid
exploitation of new technology for potentially destructive purposes. The
purpose of the PASS workshop is to invite researchers and scholars to
discuss their forward looking research related to Information Systems
and Technology and provide a forum for substantive discussion around a
broad set of forward looking topics, not limited to the issues discussed
above.Consistent with WITS theme, the methodological focus we encourage
is that of computational, simulation and algorithmic strain.

While a broad set of questions at different level of granularity are of
interest, the following questions provide broad strokes of kinds of
areas that may be of interest.

·Given the triple-bottom-line concept of sustainability that requires
long-term simultaneous optimization of economical, ecological and social
objectives, what are the implications on the traditional resource-based
view? How could we model/analyze these seemingly unrelated objectives in
a collective manner?

·What are the policy implications of the scenario wherein the cost of
information is decreasing, but environmental resources (and resources
derived from environmental resources) are becoming increasingly constrained?

·Traditional IT has focused on indicators based on built capital, for
example, physical capacity, financial resources, human resources,
etc.What are the methodological implications of relying on indicators –
for example, those related to well-being and natural capital – do they
provide a reflection of the reality?

·How do we design and develop systems that capture information that is
attached to anything that is exchanged?

The workshop will take place on Saturday September 24,^, 2016 at Carlson
School of Management, the University of Minnesota.The participants will
be provided accommodations for one night (Friday).There is no
registration fee, however, the space is limited and will be provided on
first come first serve basis.Interested presenters should send an
abstract (One page) to Alok Gupta (alok@umn.edu <mailto:alok@umn.edu>)
by September 2, 2016.

Workshop in conjunction with NordiCHI'16 conference, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ever since Eli Blevis presented his seminal paper “Sustainable Interaction Design” almost a decade ago (in 2007), sustainability has been an established topic within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Even though interest in Sustainable HCI is increasing, critique has been expressed that suggests that we do too little, and perhaps also at times the wrong things. It can be daunting for researchers to tackle global problems such as climate change, famine and biodiversity loss, to name just a few of the large issues the world is and will continue to grapple with during the remainder of the 21st century. Still, also a field like Human-Computer Interaction should aim at being part of developing a sustainable society. But how do we do that, and, what are we aiming for?

In September 2015, the UN formally adopted a new set of global goals that were ushered in just as the previous Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015) were slated to “expire”. The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) consist of 17 overarching goals, aiming at accomplishing sustainable development for people and the planet by 2030.

In this workshop we want engage everyone who is interested in working towards a sustainable future in terms of and with the UN SDGs as a starting point. How can Sustainable HCI be inspired by, and contribute to these goals? What should we in the field of HCI do more of, and what should we perhaps do less of? In what areas should we form partnerships in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals? And with whom should we form these partnerships? The benefit of arranging the workshop would be to have a common vision of how to work with the SDGs, to collaboratively explore how we could contribute to the goals and to be inspired – by each other – in our research.

For more information about the workshop, see: https://hci4s.wordpress.com
For more information about the ICT4S conference, see: http://www.nordichi2016.org/

Application:
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You can apply to the workshop by submitting a position paper or a presentation, which includes at least two of the following bullet points:

Please send your position paper (500-1500 words) or presentation (6-9 slides) by email to hci4sustainability@gmail.com

Deadline 25 August 2016.

If there are many prospective applicants, the workshop organizers will strive to put together a diverse set of participants from the research community as well as from industry. Submissions will be reviewed based on quality, originality, and their potential contribution to achieving workshop goals. We expect to include 15-25 participants.

Important dates
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Deadline for papers: August 25, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2016
Workshop: October 24th, 2016 (one full day)

Organizers:
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Elina Eriksson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Daniel Pargman (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Oliver Bates (Lancaster University, UK)
Maria Normark (Södertörns Högskola, Sweden)
Jan Gulliksen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Mikael Anneroth (Ericsson, Sweden)
Johan Berndtsson (InUse, Sweden)

CPDP is an annual three-day conference devoted to privacy and data protection. The 10th edition of CPDP will be held on 25-27 January 2017 in Brussels. Whilst a number of speakers are specifically invited by the conference, several slots remain open to application through an annual call for papers. The CPDP2017 Call for Papers is addressed to all researchers who wish to present their papers at the next Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference.

The call is split into two different tracks. The first is dedicated to experienced researchers, while the second welcomes PhD students and junior researchers. Contributions are welcome from all disciplines with perspectives on the themes of the conference. The dual-track structure of the CPDP 2017 Call for Papers aims to meet the increasing interest of researchers – from all levels and from multiple disciplines – in CPDP and their expectations in terms of academic feedback and exchange.

http://www.cpdpconferences.org/callforpapers.html

Special Issue on Communications and Computing for Sustainable Development Goals

MDPI Future Internet (Scopus / DBLP Indexed)

CFP http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Sustainable_Development_Goals

Submission Deadline 5 March 2017

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Scope

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The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is currently focused on exploring different technological challenges, such us increasing the speed, maximizing the available capacity, and, in general, improving the performance of ICT systems. However, little attention has been paid so far to the role of ICT towards sustainable development. For example, the forthcoming 5G technology is mainly devoted to urban areas, while the development of such technology in rural zones is not yet considered. Additionally, more than two billions people still lack an Internet connection, and relatively low number of initiatives are being put into place to invert this trend.

This Special Issue dedicates itself to explore the role and impact of the transformational power of 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. In this context, the United Nations General Assembly has proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a list of actions over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for the humanity and the planet. The goal of the special issue is to pursue these goals in all areas of networking and computing. Papers related to ICT for Sustainability in a broad sense such as Sustainability by ICT, Sustainability in ICT and their overarching aspects, and especially papers developing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are welcome.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

- 5G networks for rural zones

- Sustainable backbone networks/cellular network or data centers

- New paradigms to improve the network sustainability: softwarization and fog computing

- Networks elements and storage units powered by renewable sources

- Sustainable architectures for increasing the connectivity in rural zones

- Sustainable drone-services and network-services

- e-Health applications for rural zones

- Emergency services in rural zones

- Case-studies results from the application of networks and services for improving the sustainability

- Measurement of sustainability including metrics and benchmarks in networks and computing resources

CFP http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Sustainable_Development_Goals

Submission

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed Open Access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Deadline

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5 March 2017

Guest Editors

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Dr. Luca Chiaraviglio

DIET Department, University of Rome Sapienza, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy https://sites.google.com/site/lucachiaraviglio/

email luca.chiaraviglio@uniroma1.it

Dr. William Liu

Department of Information Technology and Software Engineering, School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1142, New Zealand

Website: https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/william-liu

Prof. Dr. Jaap Van de Beek

Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Website: http://www.ltu.se/staff/j/jaavan-1.105599?l=en

Dr. Filip Idzkikowski

Poznan University of Technology, Plac Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

Website: http://nss.et.put.poznan.pl/kstik/en/subpage.php?id=idzikowski2

About MDPI Future Internet

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Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903) is a scholarly open access journal which provides an advanced forum for scientific studies related to Internet technologies and the information society. It publishes regular research papers, reviews and short communications. The journal aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the length of the papers or the use of colour figures.

For Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903), authors are asked to pay a fee of 500 CHF (Swiss Francs) per processed paper, but only if the article is accepted for publication in this journal after peer-review and possible revision of the manuscript. An additional fee of 250 CHF may apply for those articles that need major editing and formatting and/or English editing. Note that many national and private research funding organizations and universities explicitly cover such fees for articles originated in funded research projects. Discounts are available for authors from institutes that participate with MDPI's membership program.

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Future Internet Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/

CfP: Sensor Publics: A Workshop on the Politics of Sensing and Data Infrastructures

Organizers: Laurie Waller and Nina Witjes, Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University Munich.

Location: TUM / Vorhoelzer Forum, Munich

Dates: 5-7 April, 2017

Deadline for abstracts (250 words): 15 January 2017 to sensorpublics@gmail.com  

Keynote speakers: Geoffrey Bowker (UC, Irvine) and Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths)

What happens when sensing and data infrastructures, from satellites to self-tracking devices, become objects of public concern? This 2-day workshop seeks to bring together scholars from across science and technology studies (STS), sociology, international relations and critical security studies to investigate what we are calling "sensor publics". We invite contributions that attend to sensing and data infrastructures as they are publicly (con)tested and demonstrated, used and lived with, hidden, governed, maintained, repurposed and hacked.

Overview

From the geopolitics of remote sensing satellites, to the political-economy of urban sensor networks, the domestic economy of home sensing devices or the democratic promise of participatory citizen-sensing, we are interested in how sensing and data infrastructures become publicly controversial and invested with political and moral capacities. How do sensor publics unsettle relations between political actors and their environments? In what ways do they problematise the governance of big data or the regulation of real-time surveillance? And, can sensor publics provide occasions for democratizing relations between politicians, experts, activists and citizens?

We invite contributions of original research that address the following (non-exhaustive) topics:

Sensors and global politics:

How are sensors - such as those from satellites and drones - shaped by and shaping global politics whether conceived as geo-politics, international relations or political ecology? How can we understand the entanglement of technological innovation, processes of securitization, visions of transparency and privacy, global economic interests, trans-national activism and governmental and civilian surveillance?

Data practices and governance:

Sensors often produce lively data that unsettle formats and methods of governance. How do publics engage with the challenges of the regulation and administration of big data, also in terms of responsible research and innovation?

Infrastructures and activism:

Sensing infrastructures are the target of political activists concerned with issues as diverse as surveillance, ecology and social justice. How does infrastructure (h)activism unsettle relations between the methods and material settings of political action?

Visibility/invisibility of sensors:

The relations between sensors and publics has often been studied in terms of the making visible or invisible of devices. What roles do problems of (in)visibility play in ordering the political life of sensors?

Engagements with the politics of sensing:

Do we want to contribute as engaged scholars to the formation of sensor publics? In what ways do practical, theoretical, cross-disciplinary and experimental engagements with the politics of sensing amplify some issues while marginalising others?

Who should apply?

We invite contributions from a wide range of approaches to researching sensing and data infrastructures. The workshop particular encourages interdisciplinary research approaches and scholars pursuing engaged collaborations and experiments, and we invite creative demonstrations as well as paper presentations. In addition, we hope to stimulate the creation of new formal and informal networks and to explore coalitions for further collaboration, the writing of grant proposals and the search for funding. A possible outcome of the workshop is a proposal for a special issue or an edited volume.

Abstracts of 250 words and brief academic biography to sensorpublics@gmail.com 

The event is organised and funded by the post/doc lab “Engineering Responsibility” at the Munich Centre for Technology in Society. Catering will be provided throughout the duration of the workshop but travel and accomodation costs are expected to be borne by participants.

Inquiries about the workshop can be address to l.waller@tum.de or nina.witjes@tum.de 

Do you have a novel idea for improving yours and others life in a sustainable manner? Does your idea involve IoT technologies?

This call is for you! Participate in the Hackathon event during the IoT Week 2017 and win amazing prizes. Propose your idea and develop your applications and services. This year, selected projects will focus on IoT solutions for tackling one or several of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN.

REGISTRATION:

You must submit a “Project Proposal” not longer than 2 pages, that must indicate :

– Who you are: (teams up to 4 persons, study level, country, university, something else you want to tell us…)

– Problem description and SDG targeted
– Proposed IoT solution (service, clients, application, sensors, objects, data sources, etc)

– Expected impact (business, societal, environmental, etc)

– Required infrastructure (hardware, software, service access, etc.)

Proposals must be sent to hackathon-iotweek2017@hes-so.ch before April 30. Extended Deadline May 15

Proposals will be evaluated by the Hackathon organization committee, you will receive a notification of acceptance not latest than 2 weeks later.  We will select the most promising submitted ideas to be part of the Hackathon event. We guarantee confidentiality of your idea until the event.

DURING THE EVENT:

The IoT Hackathon event will take place during the IoT week from 6 to 9 June  in the CICG (Centre International de Conférences – Geneva), Switzerland. 

During these four days you will have access to Workshops given by ST microelectronics and Fiware and you will have also access to the required infrastructure (hardware and software) for implementing your project. 

AWARDS: 

You will present your realization at the end of the event in front of a jury that will select the best projects to be awarded. Confirmed awards:

– The €5’000 IoT-Week Hackathon Siemens Award

– The 2’000 CHF ( €1’900) IoT-Week Hackathon ABB Award

– The €1’000 IoT-Week Hackathon Hasler Foundation Award

All participants will receive for free an STM32 Nucleo development board from ST.

ACM LIMITS 2017

Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS

June 22-24, 2017

Santa Barbara, CA, USA

http://acmlimits.org/2017/

The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present and future ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits on computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing research. A key aim of the workshop is to promote innovative, concrete research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that focuses on technologies, critiques, techniques, and contexts for computing within fundamental economic and ecological limits. A longer-term goal is to build a community around relevant topics and research. We hope to impact society through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant present for use in a future of limits.

Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2017

Paper reviews available: March 19, 2017

Camera-ready paper deadline: April 10, 2017

Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, nardi@uci.edu, Workshop Co-Chair

Bill Tomlinson, UC Irvine, wmt@ics.uci.edu, Workshop Co-Chair

For more information, please visit: http://acmlimits.org/2017/

Call for papers:
Focus session on ICT and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
in Interaction Design & Architecture(s)

Overview
Sustainability is the most important global challenge for the 21st century. While interest in sustainability is increasing within computing, it is not particularly difficult to claim that we currently do too little, and perhaps at times also the wrong things. Developing a sustainable society should include also Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) since ICT has become an integral part of all areas in society. But how does ICT contribute to a sustainable society, and, what are we aiming for?

In September 2015, the UN formally adopted a set of global goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs, see further https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs) consisting of 17 overarching goals, aiming at accomplishing sustainable development for people and the planet by 2030. The SDGs address ecological as well as social and economic sustainability.

In this IxD&A focus session, we want to engage everyone who is interested in working towards a sustainable future in terms and using the UN SDGs as a starting point. How can ICT be inspired by, and contribute to these goals? What should we do more of, and, are we doing the right things? In what areas should we form partnerships in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and with whom should we form these partnerships?
Topics may include but are not limited to:
ICT solutions that engages one or more SDGs
Work that critically discusses important topics not covered by the SDGs
The Interconnectedness of the SDGs in relation to ICT
Bridging global goals (SDGs) in terms of scaling and operationalizing them to make them possible/easier to address
The challenge of working with long-term goal in the context of ICT which emphasizes speed and results
Possible tensions and contradictions between different SDGs
The connection between socio-technical systems and the SDGs
Methods for monitoring progress in reaching the SDGs (for example using Big Data)
Submission procedure
All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper (8-20 pages) including authors' information, abstract, tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines. For more information see the full call at: http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call34fs
Important dates
• Deadline: June 30, 2017
• Notification to the authors: September 30, 2017
• Camera ready paper: October 31, 2017
• Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2017
Guest editors
For advice or queries, please contact the guest editors and use the subject line “IxD&A focus session: ICT and the SDGs”.

• Daniel Pargman (School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), pargman@kth.se
• Neha Kumar (Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), neha.kumar@cc.gatech.edu
• Mikael Anneroth (Ericsson Research, Sweden), mikael.anneroth@ericsson.com
• Elina Eriksson (School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), elina@kth.se

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a central role to play in the transition to a sustainable society. ICT offers us a rich set of tools to collect and analyze diverse sources of data to help us develop and share new solutions, and increasingly, ICT provides new low-energy alternatives to physically moving people and goods around the planet. But at the same time, ICT can seduce us into patterns of over-consumption and waste, as we buy and discard an ever-growing set of gadgets. The ICT4S Summer School will explore the research challenges that address this dilemma, focusing both on how to make ICT greener, and how to leverage the power of ICT to develop sustainable solutions in diverse areas such as urban planning, transport, buildings, food, clean water, and sustainable development.

The summer school is open to all postgraduate students across the world, and we especially seek a broad and diverse set of students from a variety of different disciplinary backgrounds and regions. We expect to be able to provide a travel grant to cover some of the costs for each successful applicant.

The summer school will run for five days. Each morning and afternoon will begin with a short seminar or invited talk on a new topic, followed by a set of practical exercises and case studies related to that topic. At the end of each day, the schedule will include a 90-minute session for participants to work together in small teams, to work on research papers based on ideas covered in the summer school. Over the course of the week, each group will develop a research idea to end up with a complete paper draft, to be presented in the final afternoon.

Topics planned for the summer school include:

• The Role of ICT in the transition to a post-carbon society
• Requirements for Sustainability
• Methods for Data Analytics and Computational Modelling
• Methods for Lifecycle Assessment
• Assessing the Lifecycle Footprint of ICT
• Green Software Engineering
• Smart Cities and Sustainable Communities
• Sustainable Buildings, Food and Transport
• The role of ICT in Behavioural Change
• ICT for Social Sustainability

Tutors at the summer school are expected to include:

• Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, NL
• Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Canada
• Maria-Angela Ferrario, Lancaster University, UK
• Lorenz Hilty, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Mattias Höjer, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Sam Mann, Otego Polytechnic, New Zealand
• Birgit Penzenstadler, California State University Long Beach, USA
• Chris Preist, University of Bristol, UK
• Daniel Schien, University of Bristol, UK

Details for how to apply will be announced soon. In the meantime, you can register your interest by sending an email to Steve Easterbrook (sme@cs.toronto.edu)

SIGGreen Pre-AMCIS 2017 Workshop

Sustainability and Innovation: Building a Tradition of Research and Practice

SIGGreen is the AIS Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems. SIGGreen provides a platform for those in our discipline who are concerned with how information systems can help reduce human impact on the natural environment – one of the greatest challenge of your time. SIGGreen recognizes that the Information Systems (IS) discipline can have a central role in creating an ecologically sustainable society  because of the field’s five decades of experience in designing, building, deploying, evaluating, managing, and studying information systems to resolve complex problems, SIGGreen’s positions are presented in its Statement on Environmental Change (https://siggreen.wikispaces.com/The+Statement-Manifesto).

The SIGGreen annual meeting and workshop will be held at AMCIS 2017 instead of ICIS because of travel logistics. The Pre-AMCIS 2017 workshop provides a forum for the breadth of sustainability research in IS and thus contributes to further developing this important IS research domain.

We invite papers employing a wide variety of methods. We welcome empirical (qualitative and quantitative), design-oriented and theory development research papers.

Interested authors submit extended abstracts (1-2 pages – see paper template for details) which will be peer-reviewed by at least two expert reviewers. Successful abstracts will be shared with other workshop participants. After the pre-AMCIS workshop, authors are invited to submit a final paper incorporating feedback. Workshop papers will be published as workshop proceedings on AIS Electronic Library (AISeL).

Information about the workshop will be updated at https://siggreen.wikispaces.com/Events

Workshop Location
Boston, USA

Important Dates
- 19 June 2017:                 Submission of extended abstracts to: SIGGreen.Submission@gmail.com<mailto:SIGGreen.Submission@gmail.com>
- 26 June 2017:                 Notification of acceptance
- 10 August 2017:              Workshop
- 16 September 2017:     Submission of full workshop papers for publication on AISeL (optional)

Formatting Requirements for Extended Abstracts
- Expected length: 1-2 pages
- Use Workshop Template available at https://siggreen.wikispaces.com/Events

Preliminary Schedule
09:00 – 09:30 Morning Coffee
09:30 – 09:45 Welcome
09:45 – 10:30 Panel/Paper Session
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Paper Session
12:15 – 13:00 Boxed Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 SIGGreen Meeting

Workshop Co-Chairs (SIGGreen Executive Board)
Chadi Aoun (SIGGreen Past President)
Carnegie Mellon University
chadi@cmu.edu<mailto:chadi@cmu.edu>

Pratyush Bharati (SIGGreen President Elect)
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Pratyush.Bharati@umb.edu<mailto:Pratyush.Bharati@umb.edu>

Stefan Seidel (SIGGreen President)
University of Liechtenstein
stefan.seidel@uni.li<mailto:stefan.seidel@uni.li>

Head of Arrangements Committee
Leona Chandra Kruse (SIGGreen Secretary)
University of Liechtenstein
leona.chandra@uni.li<mailto:leona.chandra@uni.li>

The conference EnviroInfo2017 will be held in Luxembourg in September 2017 (13th -15th) .

The main theme of the conference will be:

“Environmental Informatics – From Science to Society: The Bridge provided by Environmental Informatics"

We are calling for submissions now.

For more detailed information, refer directly to our website http://www.enviroinfo2017.org

In case of any question, you can also contact the organisers by emailing to enviroinfo2017@list.lu

The 5th workshop "Environmental Informatics between Sustainability and Change" will take place during INFORMATIK 2017 in Chemnitz (25. to 29.09.).

We are calling for contributions:

• Submission deadline: 30th April 2017 
• Short paper: max. 6 pages, long paper: max. 12 pages – in German or English
• Workshop website: https://informatik2017.de/ws30-uinw-2017/
• Submit your paper here: https://www.conftool.pro/informatik2017/

If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact anyone of the organising committee .

We are looking forward to seeing you in Chemnitz!

Stefan Naumann, Kristina Voigt, Eva Kern

Call for Papers
Dear Colleagues,
The journal Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Communications and Computing for Sustainable Development Goals”.
Special Issue: Communications and Computing for Sustainable Development Goals
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/Sustainable_Development_Goals
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Luca Chiaraviglio, Dr. William Liu, Prof. Dr. Jaap Van de Beek and Dr. Filip Idzkikowski
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2017

Scope
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is currently focused on exploring different technological challenges, such us increasing the speed, maximizing the available capacity, and, in general, improving the performance of ICT systems. However, little attention has been paid so far to the role of ICT towards sustainable development. For example, the forthcoming 5G technology is mainly devoted to urban areas, while the development of such technology in rural zones is not yet considered. Additionally, more than two billions people still lack an Internet connection, and relatively low number of initiatives are being put into place to invert this trend.

This Special Issue dedicates itself to explore the role and impact of the transformational power of 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. In this context, the United Nations General Assembly has proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a list of actions over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for the humanity and the planet. The goal of the special issue is to pursue these goals in all areas of networking and computing. Papers related to ICT for Sustainability in a broad sense such as Sustainability by ICT, Sustainability in ICT and their overarching aspects, and especially papers developing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are welcome.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
· 5G networks for rural zones
· Sustainable backbone networks/cellular network or data centers
· New paradigms to improve the network sustainability: softwarization and fog computing
· Networks elements and storage units powered by renewable sources
· Sustainable architectures for increasing the connectivity in rural zones
· Sustainable drone-services and network-services
· e-Health applications for rural zones
· Emergency services in rural zones
· Case-studies results from the application of networks and services for improving the sustainability
· Measurement of sustainability including metrics and benchmarks in networks and computing resources
You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short abstract to the Editorial Office (futureinternet@mdpi.com) for approval.

If you are currently preparing your manuscript or would like to contribute a paper for this interesting issue, please feel free to contact us. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website. Each new submission will be processed as quickly as possible and published on acceptance.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Guest Editor
Dr. Luca Chiaraviglio
Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/lucachiaraviglio/
E-Mail: luca.chiaraviglio@diet.uniroma1.it

Guest Editor
Dr. William Liu
Department of Information Technology and Software Engineering,
School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences,
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Website: https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/william-liu
E-Mail: william.liu@aut.ac.nz

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Jaap Van de Beek
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Website: http://www.ltu.se/staff/j/jaavan-1.105599?l=en
E-Mail: jaap.vandebeek@ltu.se

Guest Editor
Dr. Filip Idzkikowski
Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Website: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irR9-IAAAAAJ&hl=it
E-Mail: filip.idzikowski@put.poznan.pl

Adela Liao
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
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You are invited to submit contributions to a Special issue on ICT for sustainability in the well-ranked journal Sustainability. We invite papers from a broad range of topics connected to Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for Sustainability. More information can be found here http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/ICT.

The Special issue is coordinated but not formally connected with the fifth ICT4S-conference to be held in Toronto in May 2018, 2018.ict4s.org. Thus - papers accepted for publication in the journal by November 15, 2017 can be submitted for presentation at the "Journal first-track" of the Toronto-conference. Sustainability has a good track record on quick reviews, so there is good chance of getting a good paper accepted in time, if you hurry up in finalising the paper.

If you need more time, the Special issue is open for submission until March 15, 2018. Thus it is possible to submit a conference paper to the ICT4S-conference (deadline Nov 15, 2017) and then develop that paper with 30-50% new content and submit your full journal paper to the Special issue. There are no restrictions on the length of manuscripts in the Special issue, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive.

Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted).

Sustainability is an Open access journal, with an Article Processing Charge of CHF1400, payable if the article is accepted.

With best regards,
Guest editors
Mattias Höjer
Elina Eriksson
Chris Preist

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 5th Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2017) will be held December 6-7, 2017 in Funchal, Portugal. Papers are invited in all aspects of Sustainable Internet and ICT, Sustainability through the application of ICT, and Human-Centered technology for sustainability, including works that report on prototype test best and real-world deployments.

Ultimately, the goal of this conference is to bring together people from different research areas, and provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers from both industry and academia. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

*Sustainable Internet and ICT

1.Green Internet (e.g., novel standards and metrics for green communications, measurement and evaluation of the Internet's sustainability)

2.Energy-efficient data centers (e.g., algorithms for reduced power, energy and heat, trade-offs between energy efficiency, Quality of Service, and reliability)

3.Adaptation of computing and communications infrastructure to variable renewable energy supply

4.Emerging computing / storage technologies for energy efficient operation

5.E-waste (e.g. obsolescence of electronic equipment and its disposal issues)

*Sustainability through the application of ICT

1.ICT for energy efficiency in smart homes and buildings

2.ICT for energy efficiency in industrial environments

3.ICT for smart grids and water distribution systems

4.ICT for sustainable transport and logistics

5.ICT for monitoring and conservation of biodiversity (e.g., underwater and fauna monitoring)

*Human-Centered Technology for Sustainability

1.User evaluation of test-bed and prototype implementations

2.Metrics for sustainability and their evaluation

3.Behavior change regarding sustainability choices

4.Human-factors in sustainable ICT systems

5.Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques

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PROGRAM CHAIRS

Chair: Mario Bergés, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Vice-chair: Lucas Pereira, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, PT

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IMPORTANT DATES (TIME IS 23:59 AOE)

* June 23 - title and abstract registration

* July 7 - paper submission

* September 21 - WIP / Demo / PhD Forum submission

* October 8 - notification of acceptance

* October 21 - WIP / Demo / PhD Forum acceptance notification

* November 10 - camera ready version

* December 6 and 7 - conference

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TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS (IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY TEMPLATE)

* Papers - up to 10 pages (8 + 2 additional)

* WIP - up to 4 pages (3 + 1 additional)

* Demo - up to 2 pages

* PhD Forum - up to 3 pages

(additional pages are subject to an extra charge)

World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2017)
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter
11-14 December, 2017
University of Cambridge, UK
www.wcst.org
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The World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2017) is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. It is a multidisciplinary congress, bridging efforts across the natural, social and engineering sciences, the environment and development of communities. The congress covers a wide spectrum of topics that relate to sustainability, which includes technical and non-technical research areas. It also encourages sharing new knowledge in the field of sustainable technologies and the environmental impacts.

The mission of WCST-2017 is to provide the opportunities for collaboration and reflection that have the potential to greatly enhance the infrastructure and capacity for conducting and applying art, science and technology for sustainability. The WCST bridges the gap between academia and industry by creating awareness of current development in sustainable technologies.

The topics in WCST-2017 include but are not confined to the following areas:

Sustainable Energy Technologies:
* Bio-energy and Geo-energy
* Energy
* Energy in Transportation Systems
* Energy Efficiency in Utilization
* Environmental Issues
* Energy Harvesting
* Energy Storage Systems
* Energy Storage Systems
* Energy Market, Management and Economics
* Energy Resources for Portable Electronics
* Energy Efficiency in Utilization
* Geothermal energy
* Intelligent Energy, Power Transmission Distribution, Interconnects and Protection
* Materials for Energy Resources
* Nanotechnology in Energy
* New Enabling Technologies
* New Materials for Energy Resources and RF and Magnetic Field Energy Devices
* Off-grid Isolated Energy Systems
* Policy Issues on Renewable Energy
* Power Electronics and Energy Conversion
* Renewable Energy and Biofuels

Renewable Energy Management, Economics and Environmental Impact:
* Climate Change
* Energy from waste
* Environmental assessments
* Environmental issues
* Environmental policies and planning
* Hazardous Chemical
* Innovative use of Renewable Raw Materials
* Offshore pollution and oil spills
* Pollution prevention
* Sustainable waste management technologies
* Sustainability impact assessments and tools

Education:
* Environmental Education
* Education and Training
* E-Society (e-Learning, e-Health, e-Medicine, e-Governance, e-Business, e-Art, e-Science)

Green Computing:
* Advanced IT energy-aware technologies
* Green Computing Geo-energy
* E-Cycling
* E-Inclusion
* Electronic waste
* Energy Efficient Ethernet
* IT energy management
* Power-aware software
* Power-efficient architectures and chip designs
* Component level power management, e.g., memory, disk.
* Power aware networking
* Smart Grids applications
* Technology as Green Enablers (Grid, Cloud, Data Centers, Virtualization)

Sustainable Building Design:
* Building Design and System
* Creative Industries
* Industrial Developments
* Low and zero energy houses and buildings
* New Insulation materials and techniques
* New building materials and recycling
* Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal

Sustainability and Policy:
* Sustainable Applications
* Sustainable Development Policy
* Sustainable Innovations
* Sustainable Technology Programme

Waste Management:
* Agricultural wastes
* Industrial waste management
* Medical wastes
* Mining and mineral wastes
* Nuclear and hazardous waste
* Waste from electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE)
* Waste water treatment

All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

**Paper/Extended Abstract Submission:
- To submit a paper/extended abstract, please email your paper/extended paper to papers@wcst.org or submit it online at http://www.wcst.org/paper-submission/

**Workshop/Special Track Submission:
- Please email your Workshop/Special Track proposal to workshop@wcst.org or specialtrack@wcst.org

**Poster/Demo Submission:
- Please email your poster to poster@wcst.org and demo@wcst.org

Submission Dates:

*Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: September 15, 2017
*Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection: September 25, 2017
*Full Paper Submission Date: September 30, 2017
*Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: October 15, 2017
*Camera Ready Paper Due: November 15, 2017
*Workshops and Tutorials Submission Date: September 01, 2017
*Notification of Workshop and Tutorial Acceptance: September 05, 2017
*Special Track Submission Date: September 01, 2017
*Notification of Special Track Acceptance: September 05, 2017
*Poster/Demo Submission Date: September 30, 2017
*Notification of Poster/Demo Acceptance: October 15, 2017
*Proposal for Industrial Presentation: September 01, 2017
*Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance: September 05, 2017
*Early Registration Deadline: October 30, 2017
*Late Registration Deadline (Authors only): November 15, 2017
*Late Registration (Participants only): November 25, 2017
*Conference Dates: December 11-14, 2017

For further details, please visit www.wcst.org

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3rd International Workshop on Big data for sustainable development will take place in Boston on 11-14 December 2017. Deadline for submission is 10th October 2017

For more information visit: http://ssuopt.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wordpress/ieeebigdata2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

Socio-technical Transitions and Practices: Insights into Environmental Sustainability

The multi-level analytical framework of socio-technical transitions promoted since the beginning of the 2000s (Grin, Rotmans and Schot 2011; Smith, Voß and Grin 2010; Geels 2002; 2011) has been recently brought into question by taking into consideration materiality, the dispersed and uneven distribution of agency and power, and the importance of (historical, spatial and political) context (Avelino et al. 2016). As pointed out by various criticisms, the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions often assumes a vertical trajectory, is too focused on institutions, and – methodologically – is based on secondary analyses of official data. By linking these criticisms with sustainability issues, moreover, inconsistencies and ambivalences emerge, as several contributions have shown especially in the renewable energy sector (e.g. Schreuer 2016; Scotti and Minervini 2016). This reminds us of the ambiguous meaning of the notion of ‘sustainability’ (Redclift 2005; Moneva, Archel and Correa 2006; Hornborg 2015; Rice 2007; Gottschlich and Bellina 2016). Furthermore, from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective, Shove and Walker (2007; 2010) have suggested the need to reconsider the multi-level approach to socio-technical transitions by taking into account the practice level. This means to analyse, on the one hand, the mutual relationship between technologies and innovation paths; on the other, how these relate with practitioners.

In recent years, transition studies have actually turned to the practice theory approach, especially drawing on STS theoretical perspectives (Chilvers and Longhurst 2016), as well as on a renewed interest for the material components of innovation processes (Hoffman and Loeber 2015). In this framework, socio-technical transitions are regarded as the outcome of co-production processes simultaneously involving human and non-human actors.

Intensifying contaminations between the field of socio-technical transitions and the field of practices ask for a systematic reflection. This special issue of Tecnoscienza. The Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies aims therefore to offer a venue for contributions addressing environmental sustainability by linking socio-technical transitions and practices. An STS perspective may in particular shed light on the role of non-human agency in co-shaping the everyday practices involved in the transition towards sustainability. Innovation experiences, for instance, may be both fostered and hindered by material elements or broad infrastructures in which local practices are embedded, and we need a better understanding of the factors leading to the one or the other outcome.

This special issue invites paper submissions including, but not limited to, the following themes: mobility; waste management; food production, consumption and supply; energy consumption and production.

Key research questions to be addressed include the following:

• Are there competing (human/non-human) networks around a same sustainable transition goal? What shape do they take? Do they interact in some way?

• What are the actants that play a role in a local network?

• How can the issue of “path dependency” be explored through the lens of practices?

• What are the practices that characterize a socio-technical transition process in a specific context (e.g. everyday mobility strategies; personal care; dietary choice and food consumption; heating)?

A further aim of the special issue is to include a variety of geographical and societal contexts. The link between growth and sustainability in socio-technical transitions implies several political consequences, in terms of Global North-South divide as well as at local level. For instance, governments – especially in the European Union – are engaged in promoting investments in the energy sector to pursue climate emissions reduction, yet the actual implementation of these efforts does not distribute benefits equitably among the territories involved in the process. Similarly, the dominant account of sustainability has a specific cultural connotation, since it originates in the Global North (Gottschlich and Bellina 2016). Therefore, cases from the Global South may enrich the reflection we wish to develop.

Deadline for abstract submissions: December 15th, 2017

Abstracts (in English) with a maximum length of 500 words should be sent as email attachments to redazione@tecnoscienza.net and carbon copied to the guest editors. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by January 2017. Full papers (in English with a maximum length of 8,000 words including notes and references) will be due by April 30th, 2018 and will be subject to a double-blind peer review process. The special issue is expected to be published in 2019.

For information and questions, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors:

Paolo Giardullo, paolo.giardullo@unipd.it

Sonia Brondi, sonia.brondi@unibo.it

Luigi Pellizzoni, luigi.pellizzoni@unipi.it

References

Avelino, F., Grin, J., Pel, B., and Jhagroe, S. (2016) The politics of sustainability transitions,Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 18(5), 557-567.

Chilvers, J. and Longhurst, N. (2016) Participation in transition(s): Reconceiving public engagements in energy transitions as co-produced, emergent and diverse, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 18(5), 585-507.

Geels, F. W. (2002) Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: A multi-level perspective and a case-study, Research Policy, 31(8), 1257-1274.

Geels, F. W. (2011) The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: Responses to seven criticisms, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 1(1), 24-40.

Gottschlich, D. and Bellina, L. (2016) Environmental justice and care: critical emancipatory contributions to sustainability discourse, Agriculture and Human Values. doi:10.1007/s10460-016-9761-9

Grin, J., Rotmans, J., and Schot, J. (2011) On patterns and agency in transition dynamics: Some key insights from the KSI programme, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 1(1), 76- 81.

Hoffman, J. and Loeber, A. (2015) Exploring the micro-politics in transitions from a practice perspective: The case of greenhouse innovation in the Netherlands, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 18(5), 692-711

Hornborg, A. (2015) Cornucopia or zero-sum game? The epistemology of sustainability. Journal of world-systems research, 9(2), 205-216.

Moneva, J. M., Archel, P., and Correa, C. (2006) GRI and the camouflaging of corporate unsustainability, Accounting forum, 30(2), 121-137.

Redclift, M. (2005) Sustainable development (1987-2005): An oxymoron comes of age, Sustainable Development, 13(4), 212-227.

Rice, J. (2007) Ecological unequal exchange: Consumption, equity, and unsustainable structural relationships within the global economy, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 48(1), 43-72.

Schreuer, A. (2016) The establishment of citizen power plants in Austria: A process of empowerment?, Energy Research & Social Science, 13, 126-135.

Scotti, I. and Minervini, D. (2017) Performative connections: translating sustainable energy transition by local communities, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 30(3), 350-364.

Shove, E. and Walker, G. (2007) CAUTION! Transitions ahead: Politics, practice, and sustainable transition management, Environment & Planning A, 39(4), 763-770.

Shove, E. and Walker, G. (2010) Governing transitions in the sustainability of everyday life. Research policy, 39(4), 471-476.

Smith, A., Voß, J. P. and Grin, J. (2010) Innovation studies and sustainability transitions: The allure of the multi-level perspective and its challenges, Research Policy, 39(4), 435-448.

Call for Contributions

*5th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S)*
http://2018.ict4s.org

*About the ICT4S conferences*
The ICT4S conferences bring together leading researchers in ICT for Sustainability with government and industry representatives, including 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. More information can be found at: 2018.ict4s.org

*Theme and Topics*
The theme of the 2018 conference is “Thriving Communities”.
The transformational power of ICT is essential to put our society on the path to sustainability. This potential could embrace all levels, from individuals to communities, from public sector to all industry sectors, from business goals to social aspirations and environmental objectives. ICT can bring people together to build thriving, resilient communities. Papers relating to ICT for sustainability in a broad sense and papers developing this year’s theme (and beyond) are welcome. Instructions for all types of submissions can also be found at the conference website.

Conference topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Sustainable community building via ICT
Grassroots movements facilitated by ICT
Resilience by ICT
Social sustainability implications, contributions and limitations of ICT
Enabling and systemic effects of ICT on society and/or the environment
Smart cities, homes and offices
Intelligent energy management in buildings
Smart grids
Sustainability in data centers and high-performance computing
Intelligent transportation and logistics
Green networking, monitoring and adaptation of software-intensive systems and services
ICT-induced behavioral and societal change
Design principles for sustainable ICT
Energy-efficient and energy-aware software engineering
Sustainability of technical infrastructures
Software for environmental sustainable ICT
Software for sustainable business governance
Reduced hardware obsolescence
E-waste and closed material cycles
Incentives for more sustainable ICT
Tools supporting green decision making and development
Challenges for an environmentally sustainable ICT industry
Education in ICT for sustainability
Systematic interdisciplinary efforts in ICT for sustainability

*Workshops*
We invite workshop proposals of traditional or unconventional formats for half-day or full-day workshops. Workshops will be held on Monday, May 14, and Friday, May 18, 2018.
ICT4S'18 workshops will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to sustainability and technology research and practice. A variety of formats can be considered, ranging from traditional research paper presentations to extremely interactive and participatory sessions. We particularly invite proposals that cover controversial viewpoints, emerging technology drivers or transformative ideas aimed at changing basic assumptions.
Detailed call for proposals here: http://2018.ict4s.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CfP-ICT4S-Workshops-2017-v01.pdf

*Papers*
We welcome original papers and posters reporting on research, development, case studies, and experience reports in the field of ICT4S.
All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines, and limited to at most 6,500 words, and 10 pages including text, appendices, figures and references. The current Word template and LaTeX files are linked on the website.
http://2018.ict4s.org/call-for-papers-workshops-and-posters/
Submission will be via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ict4s2018.

*Journals First track*
We invite authors of recently published journals papers to present their work at ICT4S. Journals first papers should relate to ICT4S and describe original and previously unpublished results that significantly extend (or were not previously reported in) prior work. Papers that are extensions of previous conference papers, or which are minor enhancements or variants of the results presented in the prior work are not eligible.
For a journal paper to be eligible to participate, the paper must be:
In scope of the conference, see above for possible topics;
Accepted in one of the journals listed on the detailed call on the website;
Accepted for publication after May 15, 2016 and before November 15, 2017.
If you would like us to consider a paper published in another journal of equal reputation to those presented in the list on our website, please contact the Program Chair.

*Posters*
We invite submissions of high-quality extended abstracts for posters. Posters may present late-breaking research or work in progress. A poster can help attract interest and give a rapid overview of what your research is all about. At the conference, the work described in the extended abstract will be presented as a poster, ideally in interactive discussion with the audience. We especially welcome posters that describe proposed empirical studies. An attachment with a maximum of 2 additional pages must be included in the submission. The attachment must clearly state how the work described in the extended abstract is to be presented at the conference, emphasizing interaction potential and explaining how an engaging participant experience will be achieved. More details will be available on the website soon.

*Important dates*
*Workshop proposals
Proposal submission deadline Oct 15 2017
Proposal acceptance notification Oct 22 2017

*Paper & Journals First submissions
Abstracts deadline Nov 7 2017
Full papers deadline Nov 15 2017
Paper acceptance notification Feb 1 2018
Camera-ready deadline Mar 1 2018

*Posters
Submission deadline Feb 15 2018
Poster acceptance notification Mar 15 2018

*Student volunteers
Application deadline Feb 15 2018
Notification Feb 22 2018
(Authors of accepted posters or workshop contributions may submit a late application by March 20 2018.)

General chair
Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Canada

Program chair
Birgit Penzenstadler, California State University Long Beach, USA

Contact
info@ict4s.org
2018.ict4s.org

Dear Friends,

We’re inviting you to set the agenda at
RightsCon Toronto
(May 16-18, 2018) by designing and building a session through our Call
for Proposals, open until
November 24, 2017.

We’re particularly excited to see your submissions under the track for Digital
Tech and Sustainable Development, as well as Environment, Health, Land, and Labour. We are looking to expand the program on these issues for this year’s event, and it will be an excellent opportunity for collaboration across sectors.

Why lead a RightsCon session?

RightsCon is home to the world’s leading community of movers and shakers in
the digital age. The event brings together policy makers, business leaders, government representatives, technologists, campaigners, and human rights defenders from around the world.
RightsCon Toronto is set to be our biggest and most impactful event yet, with over 2000 participants from 110 countries and 750 organizations.

Leading a session is the
best way to make a direct impact
at RightsCon: from identifying and mapping problems, to connecting with the right allies and partners, and workshopping solutions and ultimately driving change. By getting involved in the program
and setting the agenda, you will gain expert insight, build new strategic partnerships, and influence global norms.

What does a RightsCon session
look like?

Timely, engaging, outcomes-oriented, and creative. We suggest you start by reading
our submission guide,
as it offers helpful tips and suggestions for what makes a great proposal! There are many different formats you can choose from:

Need to get our community together to problem-solve a major challenge? Design
a Fishbowl.
Want to launch or showcase a new internet freedom product? Do a
Tech Demo.
Have a specific policy or advocacy strategy you want to map out? Lead a
Workshop.
Looking to give a crash course on a recent development in your field? Give a
Lightning Talk.

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach in setting the RightsCon agenda, but the
key to a successful session is picking the right format to engage participants and achieve your objectives. Still not sure which format is best? We’re here to help, email us at
conference@accessnow.org.

Attending RightsCon 2018

Tickets
are on sale now in
limited
Early Registration pricing! To celebrate the start of ticket sales, we’re offering another 20% -- just use the promo code
OFF20. These tickets tend to run out fast, and will soon return to regular pricing! Be sure to act now if you
want to get the best deal on your ticket for RightsCon Toronto.

Speakers, Local Champions, and
Community Participants

This year, we’re strengthening our RightsCon community in a few ways, including
with a new local champions initiative. You can check out our
community page to learn more. In the meantime, here’s a sample of who you can expect to see
and meet at RightsCon Toronto!
Tara Denham,
Director, Democracy Unit, Global Affairs Canada
Harlem Désir,
Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Amira Elghawaby,
National Representative, Digital Communications at the Canadian Labour Congress, Contributing Editor & Board Member at Rabble
Annie Game,
Executive Director, IFEX
Elinor Buxton,
Senior Cyber Research Analyst, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
Michael Posner,
Director at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
John Ralston Saul,
Co-Chair, Institute for Canadian Citizenship, author
Kelsey Merkley,
Public Lead, Creative Commons Canada
Julie Owono,
Head of Africa Desk, Internet Sans Frontières
Kyung-sin Park,
Director, Open Net Korea
Fereidoon Bashar,
Co-Director, ASL19
Nighat Dad,
Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
Ronaldo Lemos,
Director of the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio
Dmitri Vitaliev,
Director, equalit.ie
Farhaan Ladhani,
CEO and Co-Founder at Perennial
David Kaye,
UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Walid Al-Saqaf,
Board Trustee for the Internet Society (ISOC)
Eileen Donahoe,
Executive Director & Adjunct Professor at the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
Alison Gibbins,
Tech Community Engagement Lead, Royal Bank of Canada
Sarah Saska,
CEO, Feminuity
Camille Francois,
Principal Researcher, Jigsaw
Judith Lichtenberg,
Executive Director at Global Network Initiative
Hans de Zwart,
Director, Bits of Freedom
Gabriella Coleman,
Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University
Ron Deibert,
Director of the Citizen Lab, author, and co-founder of Psiphon
Alice Klein,
CEO, NOW Magazine
Laura Tribe,
Executive Director, Open Media
Michael Geist,
Professor, University of Ottawa
Plus many more!

We’d love for you to join us at
this important event. If you have any questions about your session proposal, registration, or our ticket discounts and special rates, please let us know, by contacting me or our RightsCon Director, Nick Dagostino, at
conference@accessnow.org.

The 10th BUIS-Tage 2018 (“CEMIS-Days”, Corporate Enviromental Management Information Systems) are organized by the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (COAST) of the University of Oldenburg. The focus is on “smart” cities and regions. The sustainable development of such structures is not limited to individual aspects – the interaction is crucial. The conference will present innovative methods and concepts in the interaction of science, business, politics and society.

The different information technology solutions and approaches are reflected in current (planned) smart cities and regions. These provide an indication of how the impact of sustainable ideas and solutions will impact the environment in the upcoming years. The conference aims to discuss innovative approaches (technical, economic and social) in expert sessions and show how corporate environmental information systems can influence these developments.

https://buistage2018.de/en/

Track 29: Sustainably Digital

June 23rd - 28th 2018 / Portsmouth, UK

Deadline for paper submissions: November 27th, 2017

=== TRACK CHAIRS ===

Johann Kranz
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
kranz@lmu.de

Savanid (Nui) Vatanasakdakul
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Savanid.vatanasakdakul@mq.edu.au

Helena Karsten
Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
ekarsten@abo.fi

=== TRACK DESCRIPTION ===

Full version: http://ecis2018.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ECIS2018_Track29_Sustainably-digital.pdf

The aim of this theme track is to advance the ongoing, yet emergent, discussion on the role and relevance of information systems in the context of sustainability. It intends to provide thought leaders with a forum that accounts for the breadth of sustainability research in the information systems discipline in terms of environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Potential topics range from the design of systems and digital services for sustainability to the application of existing theories on change at the individual, group, organizational, and societal levels, as well as the development of new theory. We particularly look for rigorous research that shows that IS can have a "real impact" on the pressing issues of sustainability.

The track's topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Green IS and Green IT in organisations
- Sustainable IS-based Business Models (e.g., smart mobility, sharing economy)
- Ecological, social, and economic impacts of information technology
- IS-based Social Entrepreneurship
- IS enabled sustainability education and training
- Crowdsourcing and environmental collaboration
- Convergence between Green IS theory and practice

We are looking forward to seeing you in Portsmouth 2018!

The 32nd edition of the EnviroInfo conference series will take place in

Garching near Munich, 5th – 7th September 2018
at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)

http://www.enviroinfo2018.eu/participation/call-for-sessions/