Including software aspects in green IT: How to create awareness for green software issues
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Green IT Engineering. ed. / Vyacheslav Kharchenko; Yuriy Kondratenko; Janusz Kacprzyk. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. p. 3-20 (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Vol. 171).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Including software aspects in green IT
T2 - How to create awareness for green software issues
AU - Kern, Eva
AU - Guldner, Achim
AU - Naumann, Stefan
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - While counteracting the increasing demand for natural resources and especially energy of ICT, first successes have become apparent by activities comprised by the term “Green IT”. Nowadays, many of the current activities lay emphasis on the hardware side of Green IT. However, software issues play a significant role in defining system and hardware requirements as well as the amount of energy consumed by ICT devices and the underlying infrastructure. Thus, the following chapter introduces the idea of green software and its engineering. Complementary to definitions and models in the addressed field, a more practical insight is given by illustrating exemplary energy measurements of software products. While these aspects show that the research is increasingly dealing with software issues of Green IT, these mainly scientific ideas have hardly reached practical relevance, so far. Hence, following the life cycle perspective of software products, we present two exemplary concepts on how to increase awareness of green software: addressing especially software engineers, we propose to implement continuous energy efficiency measurements during the development phase. With regards to software users, we propose to create an eco-label for software products to inform about their environmental issues and thus create more transparency in this context. To do so, we present and evaluate criteria and indicators, upon which a label could be based. The chapter concludes with a summary and proposes future activities in the addressed field. Overall, the aim of the chapter is to point out solutions that might lead to a more environmentally friendly way of developing software, a well-informed procurement behavior regarding software products, and a more sustainable user behavior concerning ICT.
AB - While counteracting the increasing demand for natural resources and especially energy of ICT, first successes have become apparent by activities comprised by the term “Green IT”. Nowadays, many of the current activities lay emphasis on the hardware side of Green IT. However, software issues play a significant role in defining system and hardware requirements as well as the amount of energy consumed by ICT devices and the underlying infrastructure. Thus, the following chapter introduces the idea of green software and its engineering. Complementary to definitions and models in the addressed field, a more practical insight is given by illustrating exemplary energy measurements of software products. While these aspects show that the research is increasingly dealing with software issues of Green IT, these mainly scientific ideas have hardly reached practical relevance, so far. Hence, following the life cycle perspective of software products, we present two exemplary concepts on how to increase awareness of green software: addressing especially software engineers, we propose to implement continuous energy efficiency measurements during the development phase. With regards to software users, we propose to create an eco-label for software products to inform about their environmental issues and thus create more transparency in this context. To do so, we present and evaluate criteria and indicators, upon which a label could be based. The chapter concludes with a summary and proposes future activities in the addressed field. Overall, the aim of the chapter is to point out solutions that might lead to a more environmentally friendly way of developing software, a well-informed procurement behavior regarding software products, and a more sustainable user behavior concerning ICT.
KW - Informatics
KW - Green software
KW - Green software development
KW - Energy measurements
KW - Environment
KW - Eco-label
KW - Energy efficiency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054170749&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-00253-4_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-00253-4_1
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:85054170749
SN - 978-3-030-00252-7
T3 - Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
SP - 3
EP - 20
BT - Green IT Engineering
A2 - Kharchenko, Vyacheslav
A2 - Kondratenko, Yuriy
A2 - Kacprzyk, Janusz
PB - Springer International Publishing
CY - Cham
ER -