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Green Computing, Green Software, and Its Characteristics: Awareness, Rating, Challenges

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Issues of green computing, especially on the hardware side, arouse interest of scientific communities since several years. The number of scientific publications and research activities rises. This begs the question if resulting ideas, approaches, and findings find their way from science to society. Hence, similar to different researchers, we conducted a survey regarding corresponding issues. Since we focused on software users, we will compare our results to those addressing students, practitioners, and IT managers. The following paper will provide an insight into awareness of green software and green computing, present a user survey we conducted in the summer of 2016 in Germany, and approaches on how to create awareness to environmental issues of ICT, especially on the software side.

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  • Green computing
  • Eco-labelling
  • Awareness
  • Green software

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    The sample comprised n = 854 questionnaires. This dataset has been revised by excluding those that were not completed.

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    https://www.blauer-engel.de/en.

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    https://www.energystar.gov/.

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    http://tcodevelopment.com/.

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    http://green-software-engineering.de/en/project/ufoplan-ssd-2015.html.

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  1. Leuphana University Lueneburg, Scharnhorststrasse 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany

    Eva Kern

  2. Institute for Soft-ware Systems, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, University of Applied Sciences Trier, Birkenfeld, Germany

    Eva Kern

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  1. Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg

    Prof. Dr. Benoît Otjacques

  2. Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg

    Patrik Hitzelberger

  3. Institut für Softwaresysteme in Wirtschaft, Umwelt und Verwaltung, Hochschule Trier - Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Birkenfeld , Germany

    Prof. Dr. Stefan Naumann

  4. Environmental Informatics, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Volker Wohlgemuth

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Kern, E. (2018). Green Computing, Green Software, and Its Characteristics: Awareness, Rating, Challenges. In: Otjacques, B., Hitzelberger, P., Naumann, S., Wohlgemuth, V. (eds) From Science to Society. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65687-8_23

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