Energy-Aware Systems and Networking for Sustainable Initiatives

It is more important than ever to be concerned with energy related efforts, especially on what we as individuals can do now to help protect our future. With research coming out left and right on sustainable initiatives, we can only hope that future generations will benefit greatly from the efforts of today’s researchers. Energy-Aware Systems and Networking for Sustainable Initiatives covers a great variety of topics such as materials, environment, electronics, and computing. This title is a vital source of information detailing the latest architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and research on energy-aware systems and networking for sustainable initiatives. With contributions from authors around the world, this book presents the most sophisticated research and developments from the field, relevant to researchers, academics, and practitioners alike.

Naima Kaabouch received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paris 11 and the University of Paris 6, Paris, France, in 1982, 1986, 1990, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota. Dr. Kaabouch research interests include configurable computing, real time systems, and signal/image processing. She published over 80 articles on refereed journal, proceedings, and books. In green computing field, she is the co-editod two books. In teaching, she developed and taught several courses in the field of configurable computing and real time systems involving microcontrollers and Field Programmable Gate Array devices-based devices.

Wen-Chen Hu received a BE, ME, MS, and PhD all in computer science, from the Tamkang University (Taiwan, 1984), the National Central University (Taiwan, 1986), the University of Iowa (Iowa City, USA, 1993), and the University of Florida (Gainesville, USA, 1998). He was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the Auburn University (Alabama, USA) for several years. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, USA). He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) and an associate editor of the Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR). Dr. Hu has participated on over ten editorial advisory/review board members of international journals/books and more than ten track/session chairs and program committee members of international conferences. He has also won awards for best papers, best reviewers, and community services. Dr. Hu has been teaching more than ten years at US universities, has taught over ten different computer/IT-related courses, and has advised more than fifty graduate students. He has published over seventy articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, books, and encyclopedias, edited three books, and solely authored a book entitled Internet-Enabled Handheld Devices, Computing, and Programming: Mobile Commerce and Personal Data Applications. His current research interests include handheld computing, electronic and mobile commerce systems, Web technologies, and databases. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).