[fg-arc] CFP: Energy Aware Software Engineering and Development (EASED at EnviroInfo)

[Andreas Winter]

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th workshop on
Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development
(EASED at EnviroInfo)

http://se.uni-oldenburg.de/EASED2014

September 11, 2014, Oldenburg, Germany

EASED at EnviroInfo is collocated to the 28th International Conference on Informatics 
for Environmental Protection (EnviroInfo 2014) http://www.enviroinfo2014.org.

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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 become more and more important, is “energy efficiency of software systems”. Im-proving 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 centers, where energy is a major factor in costs and environmental burden.

Next to serious and ongoing efforts in hardware design, on 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, exchanging 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 are to 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 techniques include techniques

- detecting energy smells,
- optimizing code,
- avoiding energy waste,
- measuring energy consumption, caused by software, and
- modeling software caused energy behavior of embedded systems.

EASED at EnviroInfo follows up the Workshop on Developing Energy Aware Software Systems (EEbS 2012), held at the annual GI Conference in September 2012, the 2nd workshop on Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development (EASED at BUIS), held at BUIS Tage in April 2013, and the 3rd workshop on Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development (EASED at GI 2013), held together with the workshop “UINW – Umweltinformatik zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Wandel” at the GI Conference in September 2013.

Publications

Accepted papers for ESEAD at EnviroInfo will be published in the workshop section of the EnvrioInfo 2014 proceedings. Authors of the best paper at ESEAD at EnviroInfo will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the “EnviroInfo 2014 Selected Papers” publication issued by Springers book series ”Environmental Science and Engineering“.

Submissions

Authors are encouraged to submit their papers (6 pages following the EnviroInfo Layout not later than June 20, 2014 through easychair. When submitting, please tick ”Workshop: Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development”.

Program Committee

Javier Britch, National University of Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lester Cowley, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, Southafrica.
Holger Eichelberger, University Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany.
Marion Gottschalk, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany.
Sebastian Götz, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Theo Härder, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Timo Hönig, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nürnberg, Germany.
Erik Kamsties, FH Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
Wolfgang Lohmann, Empa.
Somayeh Malakuti, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Wolfgang Nebel, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany.
Birgit Penzenstadler, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
Gunter Saake, University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Norbert Siegmund, Universiy of Passau, Passau, Germany.
Heribert Vollmer, THI Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Claas Wilke, Acando GmbH, Hamburg, Germany.

Organizing Committee

Christian Bunse, University of applied Sciences Stralsund, Stralsund, Germany.
Stefan Naumann, University of the Applied Sciences Trier, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, Germany.
Andreas Winter, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.

Important Dates

paper submission deadline:  June 20, 2014
author notification: July 4, 2014
camera ready deadline: July 18, 2014
workshop: September 11, 2014

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Prof. Dr. Andreas Winter                          	
Carl von Ossietzky University
Department for Computer Science                voice:  +49 441 798-2992
Software Engineering                         winter at se.uni-oldenburg.de
26111 Oldenburg, Germany                    http://se.uni-oldenburg.de/
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