ICT as Key Technology against Global Warming

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on ICT as Key Technology for the Fight against Global Warming, ICT-GLOW 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2012, in conjunction with DEXA 2012. The 9 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. They are organized in the following topical sections: novel implementations for energy awareness; green data centers and supercomputing; and green organization and business modelling.

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Novel Implementations for Energy Awareness.- IT-Cooling Collaborative Control Methods for Battery-Aware IT-Systems Targeting India.- Research for IT Driven Energy Efficiency Based on a Multidimensional Comfort Control.- The ECOS Green Buildings Project: Data Dramatization, Visualization and Manipulation.- Green Data Centers and Supercomputing.- Case Studies of Multi-core Energy Efficiency in Task Based Programs.- Leveraging Task-Parallelism in Energy-Efficient ILU Preconditioners.- Evaluating Energy Consumption in CDN Servers.- Green Organization and Business Modelling.- Green Performance Indicators Aggregation through Composed Weighting System.- EC4MACS - An Integrated Assessment Toolbox of Well-Established Modeling Tools to Explore the Synergies and Interactions between Climate Change, Air Quality and Other Policy Objectives.- Semantic Modelling of Dependency Relations between Life Cycle Analysis Processes.