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Panel on Green and Sustainable IS
Barbara Pernici
Politecnico di Milano, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
barbara.pernici@polimi.it
Abstract.
The panel on Green and Sustainable Information Systems has the goal
of providing a forum for discussing research issues on this topic within the
Information Systems Engineering research community. Information systems, for
their pervasive nature in most of human activities that have an IT support, can
give a contribution to improve the environmental impact of IT in two main
directions: on one side, information systems can provide a support to improve
awareness and to control energy efficiency in a variety of areas, such as for
instance smart cities and smart buildings, traffic control, and utility management,
on the other hand, information systems themselves use computing resources and
related facilities in data center and offices, and therefore they have an impact on
the environment. While a great emphasis has been given to produce hardware
equipment that is energy efficient, only recently the theme of considering energy
efficiency in connection to information systems and their design has emerged.
The panel will discuss the different types of green and sustainable information
systems and will discuss emerging research topics and possible future research
developments and goals.