The purpose of this book is to present a systematic account of research directions, results, and challenges, and a description and analysis of applications of green IT engineering and green IT approaches in different fields of human activity. Special attention is paid to the implementation of the green specialized software,
programmable and hardware components, communications, cloud and IoT-based
systems, and IT infrastructures to the engineering, business, social, and economy/management domains.
The monograph is a “de-facto” Volume 3 of the three volume sets in which the
first book has been “Green IT Engineering: Concepts, Models, Complex Systems
Architectures” and the second book has been “Green IT Engineering: Components,
Networks and Systems Implementation”, both are published by Springer in 2017.
The present third volume, with the same first part of the title, i.e., “Green IT
Engineering”, aims at motivating researchers and practitioners from different IT
domains to follow and advocate the ideas of green values for social, business, and
industrial applications.
The first versions of all contributions were discussed at the workshops and
seminars (United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Ukraine) held within the
international TEMPUS-project GreenCo and the ERASMUS + project ALIOT, as
well as at the international conferences DESSERT, IDAACS, ICTERI during
2013–2018.
The book has a chapter-oriented structure according to the “vertical” structure
of the green IT, from design and optimization of green IT systems to their applications in social, educational, business, and engineering fields.