Hoa Khanh Dam

Walid Gaaloul

G. R. Gangadharan

Alex Norta

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2015, held in Goa, India in November 2015. The conference hosted the following seven workshops: 11th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications, WESOA 2015; Second Workshop on Resource Management in Service-Oriented Computing, RMSOC 2015; Workshop on Intelligent Service Clouds, ISC 2015; Second Workshop on Intelligent Service Clouds; First International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Services Computing, DISCO 2015; Workshop on Engineering for Service-oriented Enterprises, WESE 2015; First International Workshop on Big Data Services and Computational Intelligence, BSCI 2015 (joined with ISC 2015); and Second International Workshop on Formal Modeling and Verification of Service-based systems, FOR-MOVES 2015. The 22 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions.

WESOA, RMSOC, ISC, DISCO, WESE, BSCI, FOR-MOVES, Goa, India, November 16-19, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2015 Workshops

San Murugesan

“Ultimately, this is a remarkable book, a practicaltestimonial, and a comprehensive bibliography rolled into one. Itis a single, bright sword cut across the various murky green ITtopics. And if my mistakes and lessons learned through the green ITjourney are any indication, this book will be used every day byfolks interested in greening IT.” — Simon Y. Liu, Ph.D. & Ed.D.,Editor-in-Chief, IT Professional Magazine, IEEEComputer Society, Director, U.S. National AgriculturalLibrary This book presents a holistic perspective on Green IT bydiscussing its various facets and showing how to strategicallyembrace it Harnessing Green IT: Principles andPractices examines various ways of making computing andinformation systems greener – environmentally sustainable -,as well as several means of using Information Technology (IT) as atool and an enabler to improve the environmental sustainability.The book focuses on both greening of IT and greening by IT –complimentary approaches to attaining environmental sustainability. In a single volume, it comprehensively covers severalkey aspects of Green IT - green technologies, design, standards,maturity models, strategies and adoption -, and presents a clearapproach to greening IT encompassing green use, green disposal,green design, and green manufacturing. It also illustrates how tostrategically apply green IT in practice in several areas. Key Features: Presents a comprehensive coverage of key topics of importanceand practical relevance - green technologies, design,standards, maturity models, strategies and adoption Highlights several useful approaches to embracing green IT inseveral areas Features chapters written by accomplished experts from industryand academia who have first-hand knowledge and expertise inspecific areas of green IT Presents a set of review and discussion questions for eachchapter that will help the readers to examine and explore the greenIT domain further Includes a companion website providing resources forfurther information and presentation slides This book will be an invaluable resource for IT Professionals,academics, students, researchers, project leaders/managers, ITbusiness executives, CIOs, CTOs and anyone interested in Green ITand harnessing it to enhance our environment.

G. R. Gangadharan

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