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Construction and operating of buildings is one of the major contributors to global greenhouse emissions. With the inefficient usage of energy due to human behavior and manual operation, the energy consumption of buildings is further…

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Scientific research in many fields routinely requires the analysis of large datasets, and scientists often employ workflow systems to leverage clusters of computers for their data analysis. However, due to their size and scale, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lauritz Thamsen , Yehia Elkhatib , Paul Harvey , Syed Waqar Nabi , Jeremy Singer , Wim Vanderbauwhede

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the percentage of global emissions attributable to Information Systems is expected to further increase in the coming years, due to a proliferation of Internet-connected devices omnipresent in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Nadia Gamez , Jose-Miguel Horcas , Monica Pinto , Lidia Fuentes

Preserving energy in households and office buildings is a significant challenge, mainly due to the recent shortage of energy resources, the uprising of the current environmental problems, and the global lack of utilizing energy-saving…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Aya Sayed , Yassine Himeur , Abdullah Alsalemi , Faycal Bensaali , Abbes Amira

In this research paper, we propose a new type of energy-efficient Green AI architecture to support circular economies and address the contemporary challenge of sustainable resource consumption in modern systems. We introduce a multi-layered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ripal Ranpara

As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use has become more prevalent, there has been a growing concern in how its associated greenhouse gas emissions will impact the climate. Estimating such ICT emissions is a difficult…

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Understanding the energy consumption pattern in the built environment is invaluable for the evaluation of the sources of energy wastage and the development of strategies for efficient energy management. An integrated monitoring system that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Vincent Gbouna Zakka , Minhyun Lee

Energy consumption reserves a large portion of the budget for school buildings. At the same time, the students that use such facilities are the adults of the years to come and thus, should they embrace energy-aware behaviors, then…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-20 G. Mylonas , D. Amaxilatis , H. Leligou , T. Zahariadis , E. Zacharioudakis , J. Hofstaetter , A. Friedl , F. Paganelli , G. Cuffaro , J. Lerch

Wireless networking allows users to access information and services regardless of location and physical infrastructure. It is a fast growing technology due to its availability of wireless devices, flexibility, ease of installation and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Ahmed Mateen , Sammar Abbas

As buildings become increasingly connected and sensor-rich, intelligent remote heating control is rapidly superseding conventional local heating control. Such control algorithms often aim at reducing energy consumption by minimizing…

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly accepted the 2030 Development Agenda, which has included 92 paragraphs, and the Paragraph 91 defined 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. The goal of this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Jinsong Wu , Song Guo , Huawei Huang , William Liu , Yong Xiang

At present, a major concern regarding data centers is their extremely high energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. However, because of the over-provisioning of resources, the utilization of existing data centers is, in fact,…

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With the emergence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Zaheer Khan , David Ludlow , Richard McClatchey , Ashiq Anjum

Data centers are carbon-intensive enterprises due to their massive energy consumption, and it is estimated that data center industry will account for 8\% of global carbon emissions by 2030. However, both technological and policy instruments…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhiwei Cao , Xin Zhou , Han Hu , Zhi Wang , Yonggang Wen

Distributed renewable energy systems are now widely installed in many buildings, transforming the buildings into electricity prosumers. Existing studies have developed some advanced building side controls that enable renewable energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Pei Huang , Marco Lovati , Xingxing Zhang , Chris Bales

One of the most far-reaching use cases of the internet of things is in smart grid and smart home operation. The smart home concept allows residents to control, monitor, and manage their energy consumption with minimum loss and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 S. Saba Rafiei , Mahdi S. Naderi , Mehrdad Abedi

Promoting and increasing energy efficiency is a promising method of reducing CO2 emissions and avoiding the potentially devastating effects of climate change. The question is: How do we induce a cultural or behavioural change whereby people…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 Federico Gallo , Pierluigi Contucci , Adam Coutts , Ignacio Gallo

Global digitalization has given birth to the explosion of digital services in approximately every sector of contemporary life. Applications of artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies, and internet of things are promising to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Nuoa Lei

Buildings consume over 40% of the total energy in modern societies, and improving their energy efficiency can significantly reduce our energy footprint. In this paper, we present \texttt{WattScale}, a data-driven approach to identify the…

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