The power grid has become a critical infrastructure, which modern society cannot do without.
It has always been a challenge to keep power supply and demand in balance; the more so …

The paper argues the need to provide novel methods and tools to support software
developers aiming to optimise energy efficiency and minimise the carbon footprint resulting …

The energy consumption of cloud computing continues to be an area of significant concern
as data center growth continues to increase. This paper reports on an energy efficient …

Power supply needs to match power demand up to a certain extent at all times in order to
provide power with sufficient quality and to maintain the power grid in a stable state …

The increasing awareness of the impact of the IT sector on the environment, together with
economic factors, have fueled many research efforts to reduce the energy expenditure of …

Urbanization has been an increasing trend that has lead to higher population densities in
cities worldwide. Providing these large amounts of citizens with a high quality of living is one …

Abstract The Smart Grid is expected to increase the efficiency of the current power grid, to
cope with volatile power production based on renewable resources, to reduce the need for …

Cloud computing revolutionised the industry with its elastic, on-demand approach to
computational resources, but has lead to a tremendous impact on the environment. Data …

Cloud computing is recently has emerged as a pattern for hosting and service delivery on
internet and has rapidly become a hot topic in academic and commercial environments and …

Demand-response management is an approach that includes the power demand side into
the power management process to reshape power demand of consumers to the current …