ICT4S 2013 - ICT for Sustainability

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Category ICT4S 2013

Deadline: June 11, 2012 | Date: February 14, 2013-February 16, 2013

Venue/Country: Zurich, Switzerland

Updated: 2012-06-02 09:41:32 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS

Extended Deadline: June 11, 2012

1st International Conference on

“ICT for Sustainability”

(ICT4S 2013)

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Feb 14 - 16, 2013

http://www.ict4s.org

Background and Objectives

“ICT for sustainability” is about utilizing the transformational power of

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for making our world more

sustainable: saving energy and material resources by creating more value from

less physical input, increasing quality of life for ever more people without

compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. While the

potential of ICTs' contribution to sustainability has been increasingly

recognized during the last decades, implementing this potential has proven to

be a challenge.

The ICT4S conference aims to bring together leading researchers from the

technical, natural and social science disciplines:

- to take stock of the role of ICT in sustainability and to improve the methods

of measuring the positive and negative effects of ICT;

- to create an interdisciplinary synopsis, to inspire new approaches to unleash

the potential of ICT for sustainability in various fields of application,

from production to consumption;

- to improve methodologies of evaluating, developing, and governing the effects

of ICT systems on the sustainability of societal and environmental systems.

Invited Speakers

Gian-Luca Bona, Prof., Director General, Empa ? Swiss Federal Laboratories for

Materials Science and Technology

Pierre-Alain Graf, CEO Swissgrid

John A. “Skip” Laitner, Director, Economic and Social Analysis, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)

Robert Madelin, Director General, European Commission DG INFSO (tentative)

Jennifer Mankoff, Prof., Carnegie Mellon University

Daniel Spreng, Prof. em., ETH Zurich

Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Sustainability through ICT

- ICT for energy management and planning:

ICT for energy efficiency, smart energy systems, smart grids, smart

metering, ICT and renewables

- ICT and dematerialization:

ICT for material efficiency, ICT-supported life cycle thinking, ICT and

product-service systems, smart recycling

- Sustainability in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI):

Creating awareness, supporting behavioral changes, empowering the 'green'

consumer with information, supporting design for sustainability

- Other enabling effects of ICT for sustainability:

Other effects of ICT as an enabler of sustainable development may be

addressed as well

2. Sustainability in ICT

- Energy flows induced by ICT and how to reduce their impact:

Energy use in the life cycle of ICT hardware, energy consumption of data

centers, decentralized and renewable power generation for ICT, energy

harvesting, energy-aware and energy-autonomous systems

- Material flows induced by ICT and how to reduce their impact: Scarce

resources used for ICT hardware, electronic waste (e-waste, WEEE),

recycling technologies and schemes, environmental and social impacts of

ICT-related material flows, future electronics

- Green design and green software:

Measuring resource consumption at the level of ICT functions and services,

implications of software architecture on hardware load, the potential of

software to save hardware resources, sustainability in software

engineering, resource-aware software, price transparency in the ICT sector

3. Economic and Political Dimensions

- Rebound effects and how to avoid them:

ICT-induced efficiency and rebound effects, history of ICT-related rebound

effects, theories and models of rebound effects, rebound effects vs.

intended growth, political frameworks for avoiding rebound effects

- Energy markets:

Role of ICT in the deregulation of electricity markets, ICT and dynamic

prices, electronic energy markets, enabling political frameworks for smart

energy use

- Economics of ICT hardware:

Supply security of the resources used in ICT, geopolitical aspects of

critical metals, economics of e-waste recycling, world commodity markets

and ICT

Audience

The ICT4S conference will bring together leading researchers in ICT for

Sustainability with government and industry leaders. Decision-makers with an

interest in using ICT for sustainability, researchers focusing on ICT effects

on sustainability and developers of sustainable ICT systems or applications

should attend this conference.

Submissions

Contributions must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ict4s2013.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program

committee and will be judged on the basis of originality, soundness,

contribution to the conference objectives, quality of presentation, and

appropriate comparison to related work. Submissions must not have been

published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere.

Contributions must be submitted in PDF format, the full papers and final

posters formatted according to the author guidelines which will be published in

July 2012 at http://www.ict4s.org.

Oral presentation submission:

1. Authors are kindly asked to submit an extended abstract of 1000-2500 words

(including references) by June 1, 2012. Extended abstracts will be used for

pre-selection.

2. After pre-selection, authors are requested to submit a full paper of 6-10

pages for review. Full papers are due September 1, 2012. Accepted papers will

be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at the

conference and published online.

3. After the conference, some contributions will be selected for post-

conference publication depending on topicality and quality. The authors will be

encouraged to extend and update their contribution for publication either in an

edited volume or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. Details of post-

conference publication will be published in July 2012 at http://www.ict4s.org

Poster submission:

1. Draft posters have to be submitted via the EasyChair system by September 1,

2012.

2. Authors will be notified upon acceptance by October 1, 2012.

3. Camera-ready posters must be submitted by November 1, 2012. Poster authors

may use the conference’s free poster printing service or bring their own

hardcopy to the conference.

For formatting guidelines, details of proceedings and post-conference

publications and the terms and conditions for authors, see http://ict4s.org/

Important Dates

Jun 11, 2012 : Submission of abstracts (extended deadline)

Aug 1, 2012 : Notification of preliminary acceptance

Sep 1, 2012 : Submission of full papers and draft posters

Oct 1, 2012 : Final acceptance

Nov 1, 2012 : Submission of camera-ready papers and posters

Feb 13, 2012 : Pre-conference activities

Feb 14-16, 2013 : Conference

Organizers

* Bernard Aebischer, Dr., Zurich, Switzerland (honorary chair)

* Göran Andersson, Prof., Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

* Thomas F. Rutherford, Prof., Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

* Lorenz M. Hilty, Prof., Informatics and Sustainability Research (ISR) Group,

Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (chair)

* Elaine M. Huang, Prof., Zurich People and Computing (ZPAC) Lab, Department

of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

* Wolfgang Lohmann, Dr., Technology and Society Lab, Empa -- Swiss Federal

Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St.Gallen, Switzerland

Program Committee (as of February 20th, 2012)

Alain Anglade, ADEME ? French Environment and Energy Management Agency, Valbonne, France

Hans-Knud Arndt, Department for Technical & Operational Information Systems,

University of Magdeburg, Germany

Bernard Aebischer, Zurich, Switzerland

Eric P. S. Baumer, Interaction Design Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Françoise Berthoud, EcoInfo Group, CNRS ? Centre National de la Recherche

Scientifique, Grenoble, France

Matthias Binswanger, School of Business, FHNW ? University of Applied Sciences and

Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland

Freek Bomhof, Information and Communication Technology, TNO, Delft, The Netherlands

Leonardo Bonanni, Media Lab, MIT, and Sourcemap, Cambridge, MA, USA

Nikolaus Bornhöft, Technology and Society Lab, Empa ? Swiss Federal

Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St.Gallen, Switzerland

Maurizio Catulli, SPRING ? Sustainable Business Practices Research Interest Group,

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

Vlad Coroama, Lisbon, Portugal

Claus-Heinrich Daub, School of Business, FHNW ? University of Applied Sciences and

Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Brugg, Switzerland

Michele De Lorenzi, HPC Co-Location Services, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing

Centre, Manno, Switzerland

Markus Dick, Environmental Campus, Trier University of Applied Sciences,

Birkenfeld, Germany

Lorenz Erdmann, Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and

Foresight, Fraunhofer ISI ? Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation

Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

Klaus Fichter, Borderstep Institute, Berlin, and CENTOS ? Oldenburg Center for

Sustainability Economics and Management, and Innovation Management and

Sustainability, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Helena Grunfeld, CSES ? Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria

University, Melbourne, Australia

Maria Håkansson, Culturally Embedded Computing Group, Cornell University,

Ithaca, NY, USA

Magda David Hercheui, BIMO ? Business Information Management and Operations,

University of Westminster, London, UK

Lorenz M. Hilty, ISR ? Informatics and Sustainability Research Group,

Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, and Empa ? Swiss Federal

Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

(chair)

Mattias Hojer, CESC ? Centre for Sustainable Communications, KTH Royal Institute

of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

John W. Houghton, CSES ? Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria

University, Melbourne, Australia

Jiří Hřebíček, Environmental Informatics and Modeling, Masaryk University, Brno,

Czech Republic

Ralf Isenmann, Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and

Foresight, Fraunhofer ISI ? Institute for Systems and Innovation Research,

Karlsruhe, Germany

Jordi Cucurull Juan, RTSLAB ? Real-Time Systems Laboratory, Linköping

University, Sweden

Hubert Kaeslin, Microelectronics Design Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Masaaki Katayama, Information and Communications Science Research Division,

EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan

Mikko Kolehmainen, Environmental Informatics, University of Eastern Finland,

Kuopio, Finland

Stacey Kuznetsov, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon

University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Patricia Lago, Software Engineering Group, VU University Amsterdam, The

Netherlands

Marc van Lieshout, Information and Communication Technology, TNO, Delft, The

Netherlands

Wolfgang Lohmann, Technology and Society Lab, Empa ? Swiss Federal Laboratories for

Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Reinhard Madlener, School of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Jennifer Mankoff, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Jorge Marx-Gomez, Department of Business Information Systems / VLBA ? Very Large

Business Applications, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Friedemann Mattern, Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

William McIver, NRC-IIT ? National Research Council Institute for Information

Technology, Fredericton, N.B., Canada

Niklaus Meyer, Special Interest Group on Green IT, SI ? Swiss Informatics Society,

Richterswil, Switzerland

Bruno Michel, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

Stefan Naumann, Environmental Campus, Trier University of Applied Sciences,

Birkenfeld, Germany

Bruce Nordman, LBNL ? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT ? Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,

Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Chris Preist, Cabot Institute and Systems Centre, and Department of Computer

Science, University of Bristol, UK

Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA ? Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence,

and SUPSI ? University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern

Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland

Alice R. Robbin, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

Bloomington, USA

Thomas Schauer, The Club of Rome - European Support Centre Tuchlauben, Vienna,

Austria

Daniel Schien, Systems Centre, University of Bristol, UK

Giovanna Sissa, Department of Information Technology, University of Milan,

Italy

Jan Studziński, IBS PAN ? Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of

Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Kazue Ichino Takahashi, NTT Energy and Environment Systems Laboratories, Nippon

Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan

Stephanie Teufel, International Institute of Management in Technology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, Malton, North Yorkshire, UK

Iwona Maria Windekilde, CMI ? Center for Communication Media & Information

technologies, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eric Williams, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & The School

of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Olaf Zimmermann, ABB Corporate Research, Dättwil, Switzerland

Contact:

Prof. Lorenz M. Hilty, Dr. Wolfgang Lohmann

ict4sifi.uzh.ch

http://www.ict4s.org