Proceedings of EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability 2015

Labelling sustainable software products and websites: Ideas, Approaches, and Challenges

Authors
Eva Kern, Markus Dick, Stefan Naumann, Andreas Filler
Corresponding Author
Eva Kern
Available Online September 2015.
DOI
10.2991/ict4s-env-15.2015.10How to use a DOI?
Keywords
green software, web engineering, eco-label
Abstract

The awareness for software as an important player regarding the energy consumption caused by ICT steadily increased in the past years. The impact of software on the energy consumption is also more and more accepted by the research community under the umbrella of sustainability in general. Nevertheless, the end user is still only slightly or not addressed in the research activities regarding the whole energy consumption of software over its complete lifecycle. Also other stakeholders, e.g. administrators, designers, developers etc., are not in the focus of creating awareness for the aforementioned topics. In this contribution, we therefore focus on ideas, approaches, and challenges in developing a general-purpose labelling process for green and sustainable software products and websites. At first we provide a literature roundup, followed by the elaboration of requirements for the creation of a sustainability label for software products in general based on already existing and new approaches. On a first attempt, we furthermore concentrate on a labelling process for sustainable as well as green websites and sum up with a discussion followed by an outlook on our future work.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability 2015
Series
Advances in Computer Science Research
Publication Date
September 2015
ISBN
978-94-62520-92-9
ISSN
2352-538X
DOI
10.2991/ict4s-env-15.2015.10How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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