ECO₂Clouds Scientific publications

General papers about ECO₂Clouds, energy efficiency, and environmental impact

• Usman Wajid, Cinzia Cappiello, Pierluigi Plebani, Barbara Pernici, Nikolay Mehandjiev Monica Vitali, Michael Gienger, Kostas Kavoussanakis, David Margery, David Garcia Perez, Pedro Sampaio, On Achieving Energy Efficiency and Reducing CO₂ Footprint in Cloud Computing, accepted for publication on IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, 2015

• Pernici B. (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Wajid U. (University of Manchester, UK). Assessment of the environmental impact of applications in federated clouds. SmartGreens 2014, Barcelona, April 2014
• Cappiello C., Melià P., Pernici B., Plebani P. and Vitali M., Sustainable choices for cloud applications: a focus on CO₂ emissions,  ICT4S Conference, Stockholm, Aug. 2014
• Vitali M. and Pernici B. (Politecnico di Milano, Italy). A survey on energy efficiency in information systems. International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems, March 2014
• Wajid U., Pernici B., Francis G. Energy Efficient and CO₂ Aware Cloud Computing: Requirements and Case Study. Special Session at IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). October 14, 2013, Manchester, UK
• P. Plebani, U. Wajid, “From Energy reduction to CO₂ emission reduction: the ECO₂Clouds approach”, accepted for publication in Proceedings of EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), 23/26 June 2014, Bologna, Italy

Papers about monitoring ecometrics in ECO₂Clouds

• Axel Tenschert, Pavel Skvortsov and Michael Gienger. “Eco-efficient Cloud Resource Monitoring and Analysis”, Energy-efficient systems workshop at ICT4S, Stockholm, Aug. 27, 2014 (download) (link to proceedings)
• Cinzia Cappiello, Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani and Monica Vitali. “Eco-reports in Clouds”, Energy-efficient systems workshop at ICT4S, Stockholm, Aug. 27, 2014 (download) (link to proceedings)
• Fugini M.G., Pernici B. (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Wajid U. (University of Manchester, UK). ECO₂Clouds: models and eco-metrics, FIRE Magazine
• Tenschert A., Gienger M. (High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart, Germany). Cloud Federation Monitoring for an Improved Eco-Efficiency. eChallenges 2013, Dublin, Ireland, October 2013
• Cappiello C., Datre S., Fugini M.G., Gienger M., Melià P., Pernici B., Tenschert, A. Monitoring and Assessing Energy Consumption and CO₂ Emissions in Cloud-based Systems. Special Session at IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). October 14, 2013, Manchester, UK
• Volk E., Tenschert A., Gienger M., Oleksiak A., Sisó L. and Salom J. Improving Energy Efficiency in Data Centers and federated Cloud Environments. EuroEcoDC Workshop, Karlsruhe, September 2013

Papers about load balancing and scheduling in ECO₂Clouds

• Theodore Pertsas, Usman Wajid. “Load Balancing to Save Energy in Cloud Computing”, Energy-efficient systems workshop at ICT4S, Stockholm, Aug. 27, 2014 (download) (link to proceedings)
• Wajid U., Marin C., Karageorgos A. Optimizing Energy Efficiency in the Cloud Using Service Composition and Runtime Adaptation Techniques. Special Session at IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC). October 14, 2013, Manchester, UK

Papers about application control and deployment of applications in ECO₂Clouds

• C. Cappiello.N. Ho, B. Pernici, P. Plebani, M. Vitali, M., CO₂-aware Adaptation Strategies for Cloud Applications, accepted for publication on IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, 2015 doi: 10.1109/TCC.2015.246479 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7180310&isnumber=6562694
• Monica Vitali, Barbara Pernici, Una-May O’Reilly, Learning a Goal-Oriented Model for Energy Efficient Adaptive Applications in Data Centers, Information Sciences, Volume 319, 20 October 2015, Pages 152–170
• Gribaudo M., Ho N.T.T, Pernici B., Serazzi G. (Politecnico di Milano). Analysing the influence of application deployment to energy consumption, E2DC, Cambridge, June 2014
• Cappiello C., Plebani P., and Vitali M. Energy-Aware Process Design Optimization. EuroEcoDC Workshop, Karlsruhe, September 2013
• Mello Ferreira A., Pernici B. (Politecnico di Milano). Managing the complex data center environment: an Integrated Energy-aware Framework, Computing, special issue on Contributions of Computational Intelligence in Designing Complex Information Systems, June 2014
• Mello Ferreira A. and Pernici B. Using Intelligent Agents to Discover Energy Saving Opportunities within Data Centers. Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy)