Conference Description:

Special Session on Tools for an Energy Efficient Cloud - TEEC 2019

3 - 5 May, 2019 - Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Within the 8th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - SMARTGREENS 2019

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The special session aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, software developers, and others interested in the latest advances of energy efficient clouds. Special focus will be on novel methods and tools to support software developers aiming to optimise energy efficiency and minimise the carbon footprint resulting from designing, developing, deploying and running software at the different layers of the Cloud computing stack. We call on to researchers and professionals to present their latest work on addressing such related challenges and to share their experiences and best practices in the deployment of such systems. We particularly welcome papers on relevant software engineering approaches and practical guidance on enterprise-wide software deployment in the cloud environment, together with real-world case studies, as well as the new generation of Utility Computing, including edge computing.

Topics of interest include:
1. Requirements engineering of energy-aware cloud-based applications
2. Design modelling of of energy-aware cloud-based applications
3. Energy-oriented tooling for Cloud developers
4. Cloud computing patterns
5. Energy aware cloud service life cycle
6. Energy aware programming
7. Energy aware Modelling
8. Cloud Programming Models
9. Green Service Level Agreements
10. Self-adaptive cloud architectures
11. Infrastructure management
12. Energy aware storage management
13. Energy aware network management
14. Cloud economics
15. Fog and edge computing
16. Microservices

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: February 28, 2019
Authors Notification: March 15, 2019
Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2019

CHAIR
Karim Djemame
University of Leeds
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Dr. Karim Djemame is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing at the University of Leeds (UK). He sits on a number of international programme committees for Grid/Cloud middleware, computer networks and performance evaluation. He is currently the Scientific and Technical Manager of the EU-funded project and TANGO (Transparent heterogeneous hardware Architecture deployment for eNergy Gain in Operation), which address the issues of energy efficiency in clouds and heterogeneous parallel architectures environments. He had previously led many research projects including the Leeds element of the e-Science DAME project with industrial partners, Rolls-Royce, Data Systems & Solutions, Cybula, and its follow-on projects BROADEN, GridPPT, ISQoS, EKT-SLA, and STRAPP, looking at Grid/Cloud systems architecture, resource brokering and performance issues. He was also Principal Investigator of the EU-funded projects AssessGrid, OPTIMIS and ASCETiC. The main research area of Dr. Djemame is distributed systems, including system architectures, energy efficiency, resource management, and performance evaluation.

SCOPE

The purpose of the 8th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Cities, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.

Green Computing is nowadays one of the major challenges for most IT organizations that involve medium and large scale distributed infrastructures like Grids, Clouds and Clusters. The conference will focus on solutions for all aspects of green computing such as energy efficiency, carbon footprint reduction and cooling management. The tradeoffs between energy efficiency and performance have become key challenges that must be addressed in both, distributed and traditional performance-oriented infrastructures. Particularly relevant is the so-called Smart Grid technology, seeking to optimize distributed electricity generation, especially from renewable sources, and to promote the use of smart devices (including smart home and new vehicular energy approaches) that require further research on distributed communications, energy storage and integrations of various sources of energy.

Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of SMARTGREENS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the SMARTGREENS conference website.

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. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
2. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS
3. SMART CITIES AND SMART BUILDINGS
4. DEMOS AND USE-CASES
5. SMART AND DIGITAL SERVICES

AREA 1: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Architectures for Smart Grids
Economic Models of Energy Efficiency
Energy Monitoring
Renewable Energy Resources
Greener Systems Planning and Design
Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption
Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications
Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies
Energy Profiling and Measurement
Energy-Aware Process Optimisation
Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption
Microgeneration
Smart Energy Storage
Load Balancing in Smart Grids
Energy Management Systems (EMS)

AREA 2: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS
Wireless Systems and Networks
Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms
Wearable Computing
Green Data Centers
Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat
Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks
Qos and Green Computing
Integration of Smart Appliances
Smart Homes (Domotics)
Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications
Interoperability
Energy Efficient Network Hardware
Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols
Internet of Things
Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools
Security and Privacy

AREA 3: SMART CITIES AND SMART BUILDINGS
Case Studies, Business Models and Innovative Applications for Smart(er) Cities
Safety, Security, and Privacy for Smart Cities
Human Smart Cities
Smart Buildings
Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management
e-Mobility and Smart Transport
Intelligent Buildings
Urban Monitoring and Optimization
User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart Cities
Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments
Mechanisms for Motivating Behaviour Change
Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services
Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities
Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications
Big Data and Urban Data Analytics
IS Architecture Designs and Platforms for Smart Cities
Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Smart(er) Cities
Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities
Frameworks and models for Smart City Initiatives

AREA 4: DEMOS AND USE-CASES
Technologies Demos used in Smart Cities
Case Studies
Energy Management Systems
Visualization Tools
Optimization approaches
E-Vehicles demos
Smart Home Devices
Experiments
Software Tools

AREA 5: SMART AND DIGITAL SERVICES
Mobility Services
Socio-Technical Integration and Stakeholder Involvement
Research and Innovation in Creative Industries
Digital Entrepreneurship
Service Architectures
Digital Social Networks
Digital Service Innovation
Digital Transformation for Public Sectors
Data Services
Service Adoption and Technology Transfer
Service Design
Digitalized Manufacturing Systems
Living-Labs & Open-Innovation
Design-enabled Innovation in Cities
Simulation of Business Models and Architectures

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Norbert Streitz, Founder and Scientific Director, Smart Future Initiative, Germany
Rudolf Giffinger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Javier Sánchez-Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

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