Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software

Abstract

Welcome to GREENS 2016, the 5th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software on May 16, 2016 in Austin, Texas, USA. GREENS 2016 is co-located with the 38th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016). WOne of the grand challenges for the next decade is to develop software engineering and control mechanisms and techniques for the long-term operation of cyber physical systems (CPS) using green sources of energy. While research results exist in measuring and controlling the level of greenness of hardware components, research is needed to relate energy consumption to executing software and entire cyber physical ecosystems. In the age of context, we can sense and monitor continuously context changes, perform analytics in the cloud, and then actuate physical components according to the computed findings---all from the palm of our hand. While researchers continue to innovate in the realm of CPS, we need to make the feedback loops more sustainable by minimizing energy consumption in its supported processes and decreasing its environmental impact---sensors, monitors, analyzers, planners, actuators, networks, controllers, applications and services. With monitoring in place, we have the opportunity for adaptive control to facilitate greening dynamically. We need to investigate engineering methods to aid engineers with CPS sustainability capabilities. Demonstrating green improvement while still controlling physical components is a key challenge. Showing CPS use, habits, or lifestyles can effectively decrease the energy footprint is the ultimate goal.