Conference day 1: Tuesday, April 14, 2015
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome address (General & Program & Local chairs)
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote 1
Session chair: Albert Banchs
ETSI TC "Environmental Engineering" standardization activities in the field of environmental sustainability for ICTs [slides]
Beniamino Gorini (Alcatel Lucent, ETSI TC EE Chairman)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 1: Energy-awareness in data centers
Session chair: Antonio Fernández Anta
Adding Energy Efficiency to Openstack
Sean Murphy; Vojtech Cima; Thomas Michael Bohnert; Bruno Grazioli
Optimizing QoS, Performance, and Power Efficiency of Backup Services
Lucy Cherkasova; Alex Zhang
Collaborative, Parallel Monte Carlo Tree Search for Autonomous Electricity Demand Management
Fatemeh Golpayegani; Ivana Dusparic; Siobhan Clarke
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:15 Panel discussion
Session chair: Marco Ajmone Marsan
Panel discussion on "Green networking and renewable energy sources"
Oliver Blume (Alcatel-Lucent Stuttgart) [slides], Beniamino Gorini (Alcatel Lucent) [slides], Bart Lannoo (IMINDS) [slides], Damiano Rapone (Telecom Italia) [slides]
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:15 Session 2: Cloud and VM energy assignment/scheduling
Session chair: Sergey Gorinsky
Empirical Comparison of Power-efficient Virtual Machine Assignment Algorithms
Jordi Arjona Aroca; Antonio Fernández Anta
Smart Grid-aware Scheduling in Data Centres (Best Paper Award)
Markus Mäsker; Lars Nagel; André Brinkmann; Foad Lotfifar; Matthew Johnson
Data Center Optimization Methodology to Maximize the Usage of Locally Produced Renewable Energy
Tudor Cioara; Ionut Anghel; Marcel Antal; Sebastian Crisan; Ioan Salomie
17:15 - 17:35 Coffee break
17:35 - 18:35 Session 3: User interfaces and feedback tools towards smarter buildings
Session chair: Christian Renner
A user perspective on energy profiling tools in large scale computing environments
Fahimeh Alizadeh Moghaddam; Thomas Geenen; Patricia Lago; Paola Grosso
What-a-Watt: Exploring Electricity Production Literacy Through a Long Term Eco-Feedback Study
Filipe Quintal; Lucas Pereira; Valentina Nisi; Nuno Nunes
Cost-Comfort Balancing in a Smart Residential Building with Bidirectional Energy Trading
Abdullah Al Hasib; Nikita Nikitin; Lasse Natvig
18:35 End of technical program, day 1
21:00 Start of social dinner
Conference day 2: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
09:45 - 10:45 Keynote 2
Session chair: Enzo Mingozzi
New Services for Energy Demand Management [slides]
Milan Prodanovic, IMDEA Energy
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:45 Session 4: Energy-efficient networking infrastructure
Session chair: Seán Murphy
Energy Efficiency solutions for the Mobile Network evolution towards 5G: an operator perspective
Damiano Rapone; Dario Sabella; Maurizio Fodrini
Modeling the Impact of Start-Up Times on the Performance of Resource-on-Demand Schemes in 802.11 WLANs
Jorge Ortín; Pablo Serrano; Carlos Donato
GreenHPC: A Novel Framework to Measure Energy Consumption on HPC Applications
Gustavo Rostirolla; Pedro Velho; Rodrigo Righi; Vinicius Rodrigues; Edson Padoin
12:45 - 13:00 Poster/demo one-minute madness
Session chair: Karin Anna Hummel, Daniele Puccinelli
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Demos, PhD forum, and posters
Session chair: Karin Anna Hummel, Daniele Puccinelli
PhD Forum Poster Presentations
Towards Systematic Performance Evaluation of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Algorithms and Systems
Lucas Pereira (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal); Nuno Nunes (University of Madeira, USA)
Exploring the Dimensions of Eco-feedback in the Wild (Best PhD Forum Award)
Filipe Quintal (University of Madeira, Madeira-ITI, Portugal); Nuno Nunes (University of Madeira, USA); Valentina Nisi (University of Madeira, Madeira-ITI, Portugal)
Towards Green Benchmarking for Green Video
Oche Ejembi and Saleem N Bhatti (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Interactive Demand Shifting in the Context of Emerging Energy Technologies
Jacky Bourgeois (The Open University, United Kingdom)Demo Presentations
A Sustainable Information Kiosk Driven by Sound
John Moore, Ryan Younger, Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, Y. Rosunally, Antonio Dariush Kheirkhahzadeh, Jiva Bagale (University Of West London, United Kingdom)
What-a-Watt: Exploring Electricity Production Literacy Through a Long Term Eco-Feedback Study
Lucas Pereira (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal) and Filipe Quintal (University of Madeira, Madeira-ITI, Portugal)WiP Poster Presentations
Semi-Automatic Labeling for Public Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Datasets
Lucas Pereira (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal); Nuno Nunes (University of Madeira, USA)
EnerSpectrum: Exposing the Source of Energy through Plug-level Eco-feedack
Filipe Quintal (University of Madeira, Madeira-ITI, Portugal); Lucas Pereira (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal); Clinton Jorge (University of Madeira, Madeira-ITI, Portugal); Nuno Nunes (University of Madeira, USA)
Central or Distributed Energy Storage for Processors with Energy Harvesting
Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Elif Tugce Ceran (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
Towards Smart City Education
Annika Wolff (The Open University, United Kingdom); Gerd Kortuem (Open University, United Kingdom); Jose Cavero (The Open University, United Kingdom)
Energy Consumption Trade-offs for XML Compression on Embedded Devices
Jiva Bagale (University Of West London, United Kingdom); Antonio Dariush Kheirkhahzadeh (University of West London, United Kingdom); John Moore (University Of West London, United Kingdom); Y. Rosunally (University of West London, United Kingdom)
An Approach to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions Through Virtual Machine Migrations in a Sustainable Cloud Federation
Maurizio Giacobbe, Antonio Celesti, Maria Fazio, Massimo Villari and Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy)
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:45 Session 5: Energy efficiency in networks
Session chair: Andreas Reinhardt
SREE-Tree: Self-Reorganizing Energy-Efficient Tree Topology Management in Sensor Networks
Debraj De; Sajal K. Das
A System for Efficient Dissemination of Weather Forecasts for Sustainable Solar-Powered Sensors
Christian Renner; Phu Anh Tuan Nguyen
SmartBuildings: an AmI System for Energy Efficiency
Alessandra De Paola; Giuseppe Lo Re; Marco Morana; Marco Ortolani