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Held in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2025)
Seville, Spain, 20-23 May 2025
Keynote Speaker
Coral Calero
Coral Calero
Green code: Houston, we have a problem!
That software moves the world is a clear fact. And that it is becoming more and more important, too. There are three aspects that have led to an increase in the intensity with which software is used: Internet-based applications, data, and artificial intelligence.
However, not everything is positive in the support that software provides to our daily lives. There are estimates that ICT will be responsible for 20% of global energy consumption by 2030, part of which will be due to software. And precisely the three mentioned aspects require large amounts of energy.
In this keynote, we will review different concepts related to software sustainability, and we will show some results of software consumption measurements that we have carried out. On the one hand, cases are carried out to raise awareness in society in general about the impact that software has on the environment. On the other hand, examples related to the consumption of software are carried out with the aim of creating a set of best practices for software professionals.
Our ultimate goal is to make the audience aware of the consumption problem associated with software and to ensure that, if at first, we were concerned with the "what" and later with the "how", now it is time to focus on the "with what".
Short Bio
Coral Calero is a Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain and has a PhD in Computer Science. She is a member of the Alarcos Research Group, being responsible of the "Green and Sustainable software" line research, where two main lines of work are developed. The first addresses issues such as measuring the environmental impact of the software and how to improve its energy efficiency, as well as human and economic aspects related to software sustainability. The second major line of work supports the dissemination activities to raise awareness of the impact that software has on the environment.Since its creation in 2023, Coral has been one of the 12 members of the Spanish Research Ethics Committee
Motivation and objectives
A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is composed of the physical, networking, and computational elements controlled or monitored by algorithms. CPS must include requirements for security, safety, privacy, reliability, resilience, and the processing of massive amounts of information. According to NIST, "CPS will bring advances in personalized health care, emergency response, traffic flow management, and electric power generation and delivery, as well as in many other areas now just being envisioned. Therefore, such systems' economic and social potential is huge, and large investments are being made worldwide to develop these systems.
The world is confronting numerous challenges that should be dealt with in the near future, such as tackling climate change and environmental degradation, producing affordable and clean energy, eliminating poverty, and ensuring education, health, and social protection for all. CPS can be relevant in addressing social, environmental, economic, and governance sustainability. Regarding social sustainability, it is imperative to identify early development approaches for CPS systems that promote strong and fair communities, such as social and health equity, community development, human rights, and social justice. These human and social characteristics and interactions are brought into the CPS due to the human-centric computation shift to the Cyber-Physical Social System (CPSS), which is the target of our workshop.
The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners i) to discuss their current work focusing on requirements, design, frameworks, and empirical studies about emerging opportunities and challenges of CPSS for sustainability, ii) to define a research agenda on the topic of CPSS for sustainability.
The workshop is held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science in Seville, Spain, 20-23 May 2025.
Topics (not limited)
1. CPSS requirements elicitation, specification, and validation for sustainability;
2. CPSS (e.g. IoT, Big Data) quality requirements for sustainability;
3. Smart cities requirements elicitation, specification, and validation for social sustainability;
4. Smart cities quality requirements for social sustainability;
5. CPSS to specific domain (health, tourism, mobility...) regarding sustainability;
6. Interaction design in CPSS for sustainability;
7. (Multi) user experience design and assessment in CPSS for sustainability;
8. Privacy requirements for CPSS regarding sustainability;
9. Ethics in CPSS regarding sustainability;
10. Teaching and learning CPSS for sustainability;
11. Modeling CPS for social sustainability;
12. Software architectures for CPSS and sustainability.
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