Introduction

The goal of GreenCom 2012 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experiences on all aspects of green computing and communications, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions.


Scope and Interests

The scope of the conference includes, but not limited to, the following areas:


Track 1: Systems, Models and Algorithms
Green computing models, methodologies and paradigms
Green design, manufacture, use, disposal, and recycling of computers and communication systems
Green software engineering
Sustainable computing
Energy-aware computing
Energy-aware scheduling
Energy-aware software
Energy-efficient network services and operations
Carbon management policies and ecology- related issues with ICT

Track 2: Design Methodologies and Tools
Green design for materials and devices
Green design for VLSI and micro-architecture
Energy-aware design for programming, algorithm and software architecture
Energy-aware design for system-level software, such as operating systems, compilers and programming environments
Energy-aware hardware/software co-design
Virtualization and thin client methods
DPM/DVFS
Thermal management and applications
Energy-efficient network infrastructures and protocols
Performance characterization and evaluation for green computing systems and applications
Standards and metrics for green computing and communications
Energy consumption simulation, optimization, management and evaluation tools

Track 3: Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics
Relationship among energy consumption, speed, security, safety, availability, fault tolerance and reliability
Energy-aware high performance computing and applications
Energy-aware large scale distributed systems, such as Grids, Clouds and service computing
Energy-aware network equipments and applications
Energy-efficient mass data storage and processing
Green computing in multicore/manycore systems
Green computing in data centers, embedded systems and supply chains
Low-radiation in wireless devices and e-waste
Computer occupational diseases and INTERNET harmful information filtering
Ergonomics
Applications in environment protection, healthcare, creature conservation, mobile, avionics, aerospace, control, etc.
Education, experience, case studies, and lessons learned for green computing systems and applications

Submission Guidelines
All papers must be written in English and submitted electronically. Paper submissions should be at most 8 pages in two-column, single-space, 10pt format that describe original work not previously published and not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work in order that the accepted papers can be put into the digital library of IEEE CS (indexed by EI Compendex).

Important dates:

Workshop proposal deadline: 25 March, 2012
Paper submission due: 15 May, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 30 June, 2012
Camera-ready due: 15 July, 2012
Conference: 11-14 September, 2012