TY - CHAP

T1 - Labelling Sustainable Software Products and Websites

T2 - 29th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection - EnviroInfo 2015

AU - Kern, Eva

AU - Dick, Markus

AU - Naumann, Stefan

AU - Filler, Andreas

N1 - Conference code: 29

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - The awareness for software as an important player regarding the energy consumption caused by ICT steadily increased in the past years. The impact of software on the energy consumption is also more and more accepted by the research community under the umbrella of sustainability in general. Nevertheless, the end user is still only slightly or not addressed in the research activities regarding the whole energy consumption of software over its complete lifecycle. Also other stakeholders, e.g. administrators, designers, developers etc., are not in the focus of creating awareness for the aforementioned topics. In this contribution, we therefore focus on ideas, approaches, and challenges in developing a general-purpose labelling process for green and sustainable software products and websites. At first we provide a literature roundup, followed by the elaboration of requirements for the creation of a sustainability label for software products in general based on already existing and new approaches. On a first attempt, we furthermore concentrate on a labelling process for sustainable as well as green websites and sum up with a discussion followed by an outlook on our future work.

AB - The awareness for software as an important player regarding the energy consumption caused by ICT steadily increased in the past years. The impact of software on the energy consumption is also more and more accepted by the research community under the umbrella of sustainability in general. Nevertheless, the end user is still only slightly or not addressed in the research activities regarding the whole energy consumption of software over its complete lifecycle. Also other stakeholders, e.g. administrators, designers, developers etc., are not in the focus of creating awareness for the aforementioned topics. In this contribution, we therefore focus on ideas, approaches, and challenges in developing a general-purpose labelling process for green and sustainable software products and websites. At first we provide a literature roundup, followed by the elaboration of requirements for the creation of a sustainability label for software products in general based on already existing and new approaches. On a first attempt, we furthermore concentrate on a labelling process for sustainable as well as green websites and sum up with a discussion followed by an outlook on our future work.

KW - eco-label

KW - green software

KW - web engineering

U2 - 10.2991/ict4s-env-15.2015.10

DO - 10.2991/ict4s-env-15.2015.10

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-94-62520-92-9

T3 - Advances in Computer Science Research

SP - 82

EP - 91

BT - 29th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection

PB - Atlantis Press

Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 9 September 2015

ER -