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Clesle, Frank-Dieter
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ICSE '12-KEYNOTES: "Supporting Sustainability ..."
Supporting Sustainability with Software - An Industrial Perspective (Keynote)
Frank-Dieter Clesle
(SAP, Germany)
Supporting sustainability with software is often summed up in the expression ‘Green IT’ and directly relates to the reduction of CO2 emissions and energy used by IT. The amount of CO2 used in the IT industry covers 2% of the overall CO2 emissions. “Green by IT” describes the influence of appropriate software to the remaining 98% of the industry. We estimate that the effect of our sustainability related software on our customers’ CO2 footprint could be 10.000 times higher than our own. The so called triple bottom line defines sustainability as covering economic, ecological, and social aspects and the dependencies between. Based on this definition of sustainability, software could not only focus on green house gas reduction. Other topics like: consumers’ protection, sustainable supply, reduction of emission (air, water, waste), recycling, human recourse management and intelligent energy usage must be as well focus areas supported by software. At last software industry should not only focus on delivering tools for life cycle assessment (LCA), we should use it and provide a LCA for our software self. The industrial question is how to increase short and long term profitability by holistically managing economic, social and environmental risks and opportunities supported by software.
@InProceedings{ICSE12p962,
author = {Frank-Dieter Clesle},
title = {Supporting Sustainability with Software - An Industrial Perspective (Keynote)},
booktitle = {Proc.\ ICSE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {962--962},
doi = {},
year = {2012},
}
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Kramer, Jeff
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ICSE '12-KEYNOTES: "Whither Software Architecture? ..."
Whither Software Architecture? (Keynote)
Jeff Kramer
(Imperial College London, UK)
Since its early beginnings in the 1980s, much has been achieved in the research field of software architecture. Among other aspects, this research has produced foundational work on the specification, analysis and component configuration of software architectures, including the development of associated software tools. However, adoption of the research by industry has been largely methodological rather than based on precise specifications in architecture description languages (ADLs) or rigorously underpinned by formal models of behaviour and non-functional attributes. Why is this? Why were the actual formalisms and tools not more widely adopted? Can we draw any lessons from this? In this talk, I hope to explore this further, drawing on my personal experience as a researcher in distributed software architectures.
I particularly hope to tickle the fancy of the younger members of our community, indicating the excitement of research, the benefits of belonging to a vibrant research community such as ours, and the benefits of being an active contributor. For the more mature researchers, there will be some nostalgic memories combined with some inevitable stepping on toes. For both young and old, there will be some thoughts for research opportunities as the need for self-managing adaptive software systems becomes more urgent.
@InProceedings{ICSE12p963,
author = {Jeff Kramer},
title = {Whither Software Architecture? (Keynote)},
booktitle = {Proc.\ ICSE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {963--963},
doi = {},
year = {2012},
}
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Sassen, Saskia
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ICSE '12-KEYNOTES: "Digital Formations of the ..."
Digital Formations of the Powerful and the Powerless (Keynote)
Saskia Sassen
(Columbia University, USA)
This talk compares two kinds of socio-technical formations: electronic financial networks and local social activist movements that are globally networked. Both cut across the duality global/national and each has altered the economic and political landscapes for respectively financial elites and social activists. Using these two cases helps illuminate the very diverse ways in which the growth of electronic networks partially transforms existing politico-economic orderings. They are extreme cases, one marked by hypermobility and the other by physical immobility. But they show us that each is only partly so: financial electronic networks are subject to particular types of embeddedness and local activist organizations can benefit from novel electronic potentials for global operation. I show how financial electronic networks and electronic activism reveal two parallel developments associated with particular technical properties of the new ICTs, but also reveal a third, radically divergent outcome, one I interpret as signaling the weight of the specific social logics of users in each case.
@InProceedings{ICSE12p961,
author = {Saskia Sassen},
title = {Digital Formations of the Powerful and the Powerless (Keynote)},
booktitle = {Proc.\ ICSE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {961--961},
doi = {},
year = {2012},
}
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