Team Members

SIG Coordinator: Aditya Ghose

• Biography can be found at www.uow.edu.au/%7Eaditya.

Agenda

Environmental Services:

• The study of services and IT-enabled services has important, but frequently under-emphasized, connections with efforts to understand and manage the environmental footprint of humankind.
• There is growing recognition that we need sophisticated decision support services for carbon-mitigation.
• SOAs are likely to provide the technological infrastructure necessary for environmental monitoring
• Services in support of environmental science are likely to become important.
• Studies on how we might reduce the environmental impact of service execution will become increasingly important.

Activities:

In the near-term, the SRII Environmental Services SIG will seek to:

• Generate thought leadership on the application of service science in the study of the natural environmental and the impact of human activity on it.
  • Report these at the SRII Global Conference
  • Disseminate these through the SRII website
• Provide a forum for a joint dialogue between academia and industry on these questions.
• Facilitate pilot projects highlighting the opportunities for leveraging services thinking in the environmental domain.
• Engage in proactive advocacy with governments, international and multi-lateral agencies as well as the NGO sector.

Research Groups:

• Institute for Computational Sustainability: http://www.cis.cornell.edu/ics/
• Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative: www.ccci.uow.edu.au
• Green IT Observatory: http://greenit.bf.rmit.edu.au/

Other Resources

• Greenbusiness Process Management: www.greenprocess.org
• Computational Sustainability: http://www.computational-sustainability.org/