Track Description

Societies must tackle environmental issues and adopt environmentally sound practices. IT is a significant and growing part of the environmental problems we face today but it can also be part of the solution. Hence, we are ethically required to adopt a holistic approach to minimize the environmental impact of IS because it is our responsibility to help create a more sustainable environment.
IS infrastructure is placing a heavy burden on our electric grids and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, IT hardware poses severe environmental problems both during its production and its disposal. But not only the infrastructure of the IS must be considered, the IS software implies also energy consumption. It is of prime importance to be conscious of the impact that a bad design or development of an IS' software can have on the energy required to run.
The public call upon IS sector is to green their IT systems by improving energy efficiency, using less harmful materials and fostering reuse and recycling. In this regard, we need to better understand the environmental impacts arising from IS, how products, services, operations, applications, and practices can be environmentally friendly, which are the standards or regulations to comply, and finally, how IS can help organizations and society with environmental issues.

Track Chairs

Coral Calero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Dorina Rajanen, University of Oulu, Finland

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Papers

A Data-Driven Optimization Computational Tool Design for Bike-Sharing Station Distribution in Small to Medium-Sized Cities: A Case Study for Cuenca, Ecuador

Fernando Cueva, Rochester Institute of Technology
Pengcheng Shi, Rochester Institute of Technology
Priscila Cedillo, Universidad de Cuenca

Deploying Smart Community Composting in Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark: A Mobile App Approach

José Monteiro, University of Coimbra
João Barata, Universidade de Coimbra
Hugo Gomes, Associação Geopark Estrela
Emanuel Castro, Associação Geopark Estrela

Studying The Consumption of IBM Quantum Computers

Elena Desdentado Fernández, Institute of Technology and Information Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha
María Ángeles Moraga de la Rubia, Institute of Technology and Information Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Manuel Ángel Serrano Martín, Institute of Technology and Information Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha

Supporting Sustainability and Technical Debt-Driven Design Decisions in Software Architectures

Daniel Guamán, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
Jennifer Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Towards an Integrated Full-Stack Green Software Development Methodology

Philippe Roose, Université de Pau
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza
Jorge Andrés Larracoechea, Université de Pau
Yudith Cardinale, Universidad Simón Bolívar
Sébastien Laborie, Université de Pau

Towards MCDA Based Decision Support System Addressing Sustainable Assessment

Aleksandra Bączkiewicz, University of Szczecin
Jaroslaw Watrobski, University of Szczecin
Wojciech Sałabun, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin