[hpc-announce] CFP - Special Issue on Energy Efficient Methods and Systems in the Emerging Cloud Era

[Maurizio Palesi]

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*Journal of Computer and System Sciences*
*Special Issue on *
*Energy Efficient Methods and Systems in the Emerging Cloud Era*

The energy consumption of information and communication technologies is
today significant even when compared with other industries. The collective
electricity consumption of communication networks, data centers and
personal computers is growing at a rate of 6.6% per year and is predicted
that 14% of the worldwide electrical energy in 2020 will be consumed by the
ICT sector. While in the past performance was considered as the primary
metric in the design of communication and computing systems, energy
consumption and power dissipation are nowadays the two main optimization
metrics. In fact, a new class of efficiency metrics have replaced the
traditional performance metrics. Normalised CPU utilisation/watt (for
compute bound tasks), IOPS/watt (when I/O is predominant), bytes/watt (for
network utilisation) and even application-related metrics like database
transactions/watt, are nowadays the most commonly used efficiency metrics
in several sectors, including, mobile/portable terminals, servers,
networking devices, etc. Designing power and energy efficient computing and
communication system requires modeling, analysis, simulation capabilities,
design techniques, optimization methods, algorithms and CAD tools operating
at all levels of the design flow. The goal of this special issue is to
report on innovative ideas and solutions for designing energy and power
efficient communication and computing systems in the emerging cloud
computing era.

*Specific Topics*
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Energy efficiency in cloud computing
   - Energy efficient computing
      - Energy efficient communication architectures
      - Energy efficient memory architectures
      - Energy efficient protocols and algorithms
      - Energy efficient data management
      - Energy efficient services
   - Energy-aware resource allocation and scheduling in cloud computing
   - Energy efficient virtual machines consolidation
   - Energy efficiency potential of cloud-based software
   - Energy efficient FoG
   - Low power circuit building blocks for cloud computing

*Guide for Authors*
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors
available from the online submission page of the Journal of Computer and
System Sciences athttp://ees.elsevier.com/jcss/. Authors must select "SI:
Energy Efficient Cloud" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the
submission process. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the
Journal of Computer and System Sciences reviewing procedures.

Authors should submit their journal version at Manuscript Central adhering
to the formatting instructions on the journal Web page and indicate that
you are submitting to the Special Issue on Energy Efficient Cloud on the
first page and in the field "Author's Cover Letter:" in manuscript central.
For additional questions please send an email to the Guest Editors.

*Important Dates*

   - Manuscript submission deadline: *Jan 15, 2015*
   - Review decisions: April 1, 2015
   - Revisions due: May 1, 2015
   - Notification of final acceptance: July 1, 2015


*Guest Editors*

   - Pradip Bose, *IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA*
   - Mario Collotta, *Kore University of Enna, Italy*
   - Masoud Daneshtalab, *University of Turku, Finland KTH, Sweden*
   - Maurizio Palesi, *Kore University of Enna, Italy*
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