Track: Sustainability as a Quality Concern
ABOUT
The imperative for sustainable practices in software development has gained increasing prominence in recent years. Addressing the intersection of sustainability and software engineering, the "Sustainability as a Quality Concern" track at QUATIC aims to advance research and explore how software engineering practices can contribute to a more sustainable future. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute their insights on various aspects of sustainability within the realm of software engineering.
TOPICS
We welcome submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Energy-aware software development
Testing for energy-efficiency in software systems
Technical Debt
Software quality models for sustainability
Metrics and measures for software sustainability
Practices for software sustainability
Tools to support sustainability-aware decision making
Developing and deploying green AI software systems
Resource utilization and optimization
Applying and adapting software organizations to sustainable models
Education and training in all the topics above
TRACK COMMITTEE
Chair: Luis Cruz (Delft Technical University) and Maja Hanne Kirkeby (Roskilde University, DK)
Program Committee:
Andreas Schmidt, Saarland University, Germany
Clemens Grelck , Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Gordana Rakić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
João Paulo Fernandes, New York University, Abu Dhabi
João Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal
June Sallou, TU Delft, Netherlands
Jukka K Nurminen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Kerstin Eder , University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Michael Kirkedal Thomsen, University of Oslo, Norway
Silverio Martínez-Fernández, UPC, Spain
Dr. Luis Cruz is an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Porto, Portugal. He is also appointed as the Scientific Manager of the AI-for-Fintech Research lab, in collaboration with ING. Dr. Cruz has devoted the past years to improving education, research, and practice in the areas of Green AI and Software Engineering for AI. Some of his most famous works revolve around design patterns and automated tools to improve the energy efficiency of software code, having been awarded with a Most Influential Paper award at MOBILESoft 2023. Luís Cruz is also an avid writer in this field and often helps tech organizations in training and developing their staff in sustainable software engineering practices.
Dr. Maja Hanne Kirkeby is an Associate professor of computer science at the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University. Maja researches in energy and resource consumption in software, program analysis, and program transformation. She is involved in several projects dealing with software’s energy consumption and leads the project “Energy labelling of websites”, see, e.g., https://dff.dk/cases/kan-energimaerkning-af-hjemmesider-gore-internettet-gront. Previous projects includes “Energy labelling of Software and Software Installations”, “Energy-certified Software Development and Operation”, and EU Horizon 2020 project "ENTRA: Whole-Systems Energy Transparency, together with the project “Hardware-Software Trade-off for the Reduction of Energy Consumption” that she lead.