ICT4S 2020 “Systemic Sustainability” June 21-27, 2020 | Bristol, UK

Call for Contributions The ICT4S conferences bring together leading researchers and decision-makers in government and industry around the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Sustainability, ICT effects on sustainability and the development of sustainable ICT systems. ICT4S is a place for researchers from a variety of fields, including Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Economics and Social Sciences.

Topics of Interest Submissions to one of the proposed tracks on diverse topics related to ICT for sustainability, including, but not limited to: Sustainable community building via ICT • Grassroots movements facilitated by ICT • Sustainability-driven resilience by and of ICT • Social sustainability implications, contributions and limitations of ICT • Enabling and systemic effects of ICT on society and/or the environment • Smart cities, homes and offices • Intelligent energy management in buildings • Smart cyber-physical systems (smart grids, smart city, smart farming, etc.) • Sustainability in data centers and high-performance computing • Intelligent transportation and logistics • Green networking, monitoring and adaptation of software-intensive systems and services • ICT-induced behavioral and societal change • Design principles for sustainable ICT • Energy-efficient and energy-aware software engineering • Sustainability of technical infrastructures • Software for environmental sustainable ICT • Software for sustainable business governance • Reduced hardware obsolescence • E-waste and closed material cycles • Incentives and nudges for more sustainable ICT • Tools supporting green decision making and development • Challenges for an environmentally sustainable ICT industry • Art and education in ICT for sustainability (incl. serious game) • Systematic interdisciplinary efforts in ICT for sustainability • Computational sustainability • Climate informatics • Languages, simulation tools and methods, and cloud computing for environmental sciences • Modeling tools and methods for sustainability-aware (cyber-physical) system development • Elicitation, specification, and validation of sustainability requirements.

Organization

General Co-chairs: Ruzanna Chitchyan • Daniel Schien PC Chairs: Ana Moreira • Benoit Combemale Workshop Co-chairs: Oliver Bates Doctoral Symposium: Birgit Penzenstadler • Viki Palacin Silva Community Engagement Co-chairs: Caroline Bird • Johanna Pohl Demonstrations Co-chair: Thais Batista Proceedings Chairs: Leticia Duboc • Monica Pinto Art Exhibition: Samuel Mann • Melissa Mean • Simon Lock Sponsorship Chair: Ian Brooks

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Arts Exhibition We are looking for creative works of any format that challenge the status quo, that provide new ways of looking at information, that disrupt and prompt us to question, or perhaps provide seeds for action. Visualisations are welcome, as well as demos and installations of interfaces or works that bear a physical or pictorial form.

Important Dates 29 January 2020 Abstract submission for research paper track 5 February 2020 Paper and poster submission 13 March 2020 Author notification

Submission We welcome original papers (technical, exploratory, application or empirical evaluation) reporting on research, development, case studies, and experience and empirical reports in the field of ICT4S. Submitted papers must be written in English.