[Scope and Topics]
This workshop is to collect results and visions of standards, regulations, policies, industry issues and efforts on global green revolutions relevant to information and communication technologies (ICT) and other relevant issues, including both the impact of ICT on the environments and the impact of environments on ICT. This workshop will exchange views on issues of strategic importance such as environmental protections, resource efficiency, climate changes, and energy efficiency, and how ICT can help boost the transition to an environmentally-friendly economy. Environmental sustainability for the ICT sector has impacted and will continue impacting the industry’s reaction to the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The current world would not survive without information and communication technologies, whose widespread use has changed people’s lives dramatically and boosted economic growth. However, the very success of these technologies has made them a growing contributor to various environmental impacts. At the same time, they may offer ways of reducing negative environmental impacts in other industries such as water resource management, air pollution reduction, energy generation, building and transport. This workshop may also provide guidance on green ICT procurement, detailing green principles to be applied when procuring goods, products and services. Another issue considered in this workshop is greening ICT supply chains relating to conflict minerals, and the way the ICT industry is managing its supply chain in that context. This workshop may also investigate the overall sustainability of lifestyle choices, a number of companies may have responded by providing consumers with information on the eco-impact of the products they buy and use.
The IEEE International Workshop on Green Standardization and Industry Issues for ICT and Relevant Technologies (GSICT) would be initiated as a forum for scientists, engineers, standardization professionals, policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students to present their latest research results, visions, ideas, developments, surveys in green standardization and industry issues in ICT and relevant technologies that can support existing and future developments and efforts and promote global green revolutions.
Researchers and professionals are encouraged to submit original relevant contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to:
- Green standardizations for systems, devices, interfaces, adapters
- Green algorithms, protocols, approaches, solutions for any industrial ICT standards and relevant systems
- Green issues, activities, efforts, approaches, and applications in industries
- Visions, ideas, roadmaps, and solutions on green standardization and industry issues for ICT and relevant technologies
- Test suites for assessment of green standardizations and solutions
- Green battery solutions
- Green standardization and industry issues for computing and information technologies
- Green standardization and industry issues for electronics
- Green standardization and industry issues for Internet of things
- Green standardization and industry issues for smart grids
- Green standardization and industry issues for communications and networking
- Procedure for recycling materials in information and communication technology goods
- Measurement methods to characterize rare metals in information and communication technology goods
- Best practices for green data centers and cloud computing
- Energy and resource efficiency metrics and measurement
- Standardizations for green offices and buildings
- Overview and general principles of methodologies for assessing the environmental impact of information and communication technologies
- Methodology for environmental life cycle assessment
- Methodology for energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions impact assessment of information and communication technologies in organizations
- Framework for information and communication technologies and adaptation to the effects of climate change
- Life-cycle management of ICT goods
- Surveys on any topics of green standardization and industry issues
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[Submission Procedure]
Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed 7-pages (6 pages without extra page charge) standard IEEE conference two-column format (including all text, figures, and references). Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 web site http://globecom2015.ieee-globecom.org/. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 proceedings and IEEE digital library. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.
[Organizing Committee]
General Co-Chairs
– Shengjie Zhao (Tongji University, China)
– Thierry E. Klein (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
– Chih-Lin I (China Mobile Research Institute, China)
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Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs
– Mohammad Asad Rehman Chaudhry (Soptimizer, and University of Toronto, Canada)
– Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
– Christos Verikoukis (Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain)
– RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
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Steering Committee
– Shengjie Zhao (Tongji University, China)
– Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
– Gilbert Buty (Alcatel-Lucent, France)
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Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs
– William Miller (Maximum Control Technologies (MaCT), USA)
– Wai Pang Ng (Northumbria University, UK)
– Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
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– RangaRao Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
– William Liu (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
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Technical Program Committee Members
-Niranth Amogh, Huawei Technologies, India
-Angelos Antonopoulos, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain
-Zakia Asad, University of Toronto, Canada
-Cicek Cavdar,KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
-Marco Di Renzo, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
-Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
-Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey, UK
-Martin Jacobsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
-Elli Kartsakli,Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
-Kimon Kontovasilis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
-William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
-Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy
-Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
-Paolo Monti, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
-Bruce Nordman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
-Kostas Ramantas, Iquadrat Informatica, Greece
-Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
-Stefano Tennina, University of L’Aquila, Italy
-Lin Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
-Roger Tipley, Schneider Electric, USA
-John Vardakas, IQUADRAT Informatica S. L. Barcelona, Spain
-Jinwei He, China Mobile Research Institute, China
-Neelesh Mehta, Indian Institute of Science, India
-Qi Sun, China Mobile Research Institute, China
-Zhikun Xu, China Mobile Research Institute, China