Introduction

The 5th IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2017) will be held December 6-7, 2017 in Funchal, Portugal, and will be hosted by the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.

The constant evolution of information and communications (ICT) technologies presents an opportunity to foster the much-needed transformation that will lead the world towards the goal of a more sustainable development. ICT is already a key enabling technology in many areas of our lives, such as smart cities, smart transportation, smart electric energy grids, etc. Nevertheless, the proliferation of ICT brings its own challenges of increased carbon footprint, accelerating obsolescence of electronic equipment, among others. These twin problems of reducing the environmental impact of ICT and exploiting ICT for a more sustainable world form the underlying theme for SustainIT since its inception in 2010.

The first edition of SustainIT was held in 2011 in Lucca, Italy. The second edition was held in Pisa, Italy in 2012. In 2013 the third edition of SustainIT was held in Palermo, Italy. Finally, the previous edition was held in Madrid, Spain, in 2015.

SustainIT 2017 continues this theme by focusing on inter-disciplinary scientific challenges of enhancing the sustainability of ICT and via ICT. The goal of this conference is to bring together people from different research areas, and provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers from both industry and academia.

Call for paper

Important date

2017-07-28
Draft paper submission deadline
2017-10-08
Draft paper acceptance notification
2017-11-10
Final paper submission deadline

Submission Topics

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Sustainable Internet and ICT

  • Green Internet (e.g., novel standards and metrics for green communications, measurement and evaluation of the Internet’s sustainability)

  • Energy-efficient data centers (e.g., algorithms for reduced power, energy and heat, trade-offs between energy efficiency, Quality of Service, and reliability)

  • Adaptation of computing and communications infrastructure to variable renewable energy supply

  • Emerging computing / storage technologies for energy efficient operation

  • E-waste (e.g. obsolescence of electronic equipment and its disposal issues)

Sustainability through the application of ICT

  • ICT for energy efficiency in smart homes and buildings

  • ICT for energy efficiency in industrial environments

  • ICT for smart grids and smart water distribution systems

  • ICT for sustainable transport and logistics

  • ICT for monitoring and conservation of biodiversity (e.g., underwater and fauna monitoring)

Human-Centered Technology for Sustainability

  • User evaluation of test-bed and prototype implementations

  • Metrics for sustainability and their evaluation

  • Behavior change regarding sustainability choices

  • Human-factors in sustainable ICT systems

  • Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques

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Important Date

  • Conference Date

    Dec 06

    2017

    to

    Dec 07

    2017

  • Jul 28 2017

    Draft paper submission deadline

  • Oct 08 2017

    Draft Paper Acceptance Notification

  • Nov 10 2017

    Final Paper Deadline

  • Dec 07 2017

    Registration deadline

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IEEE
Organized By
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
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