CFP - Special Issue on Energy Efficient Methods and Systems in the Emerging Cloud Era

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