http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/23836 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:16:32 GMT 2026-07-23T08:16:32Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26224 The Italian Survey on ICT in Environmental and Sustainability Research within ICT-ENSURE: Experiences and Lessons Learned Carrara, Paola Greve, Klaus; Cremers, Armin B. Within the Project ICT-ENSURE, the survey of Italian programmes and projects regarding ICT in environmental and sustainability research was coordinated by the Institute of Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of the National Research Council (CNR), making research activities focused on the development and testing of methodologies and techniques for observing and monitoring the environment and its changes. Participation in ICTENSURE allowed reviewing the state-of-the-art in research programmes and projects about ICT for environmental and sustainability in Italy, a field where the main funding resources in the sector come from the European Commission. The main role in Italy is played by some Ministries, regional programmes and foundations but a specific focus on this subject is missing. Nevertheless, many projects are performed by Italian bodies: from the review made within ICT-ENSURE, we found that they are mainly addressed (limited) to (wireless) monitoring and communication systems, to (geo-)web sites and decision support systems. This contribution is aimed at describing the work done within the survey and to provide some critical comments with respect to the present situation in Italy and the future perspectives and risks. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26224 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26223 Greenalytics: a tool for marsh-up life cycle assessment of websites Zapico, Jorge Luis; Turpeinen, Marko; Brandt, Nils Greve, Klaus; Cremers, Armin B. The environmental impact of internet is growing, reaching an estimated 1.4% of world greenhouse emissions. This impact is hidden for both users and developers. Understanding and analyzing the environmental footprint of a website is not an easy task. The impacts are distributed through multiple hardware networks and a global user base making the individual impacts difficult to allocate. This article presents the development of a functional application for generating automatic life cycle assessments for web sites based on mashing-up information. This application has the aim of making the impact of websites visible, allowing the instant analysis of their carbon footprint using existing analytics data and presenting it in an understandable and transparent way. The development process is presented with detailed information about how the calculations are performed. The results are discussed around two different cases, focusing on the challenges of calculating the server side impact and the possibilities for improvement. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26223 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26217 Enhancing Software Engineering Processes towards Sustainable Software Product Design Dick, Markus; Naumann, Stefan Greve, Klaus; Cremers, Armin B. The power consumption of ICT is still increasing. To date, it is not clear if the energy savings through ICT overbalance the energy consumption by ICT, or not. Where manifold efforts of Green IT address the environmental aspects of sustainability considering computer hardware, there is a lack of models, descriptions, or realizations in the area of computer software. In this paper, we propose a generic software development process enhancement that has the potential to integrate the consideration of sustainability aspects into arbitrary software development methodologies. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26217 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26222 Drowning in Geospatial Point Data: A Pattern Based Approach Waldvogel , Bettina; Wotruba, Lukas; Müller, Kalin; Bischof, Sandro Greve, Klaus; Cremers, Armin B. Collecting, storing and archiving data are well understood processes. However, it is not trivial do decide, in which form and how much of the data should be presented to the user. More is not always better. The purpose of this contribution is to present a new way to focus on the basic need for simple answers to simple queries. In this paper three query-patterns are described, which help to reduce the information flood and enhance the usability. The amounts of point data we talk about are rather large for geo-data processing, in particular they are very large in terms of human perception. It is found that the presented patterns can reduce the amount of data by several orders of magnitude by focusing on areas and species of particular interest. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/26222 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z