Green Services Engineering, Optimization, and Modeling in the Technological Age

Concerns surrounding environmental sustainability have led to an increase of interest in environmentally-friendly systems. In the ICT realm, attention has been largely paid to green aspects of hardware; however, it is equally necessary to address this issue from the software perspective. Green Services Engineering, Optimization, and Modeling in the Technological Age is a valuable reference source of the latest scholarly research on the implementation of green processes into software systems, contributing novel principles, methodologies, and tools to improve software development. Featuring comprehensive and timely coverage on various areas in service strategy and modeling, engineering, and sustainability, this publication is a pivotal reference source for researchers, practitioners, advanced-level students, and end users in the software development realm.

Xiaodong Liu (Reader) received his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the Director of Centre for Information and Software Systems at Edinburgh Napier University. As an active researcher, his current research focuses on context-aware services, service repositories, cloud service evolution and green software engineering. He has published over 70 papers and book chapters in established international journals and conferences, 3 book chapters and 2 edited books, and led several externally funded projects. He has been the chair, co-chair or PC member of a number of International Conferences, such as IEEE COMPSAC05-13, SEKE07-13 and SOSE10-13. He is an editorial board member of 3 international journals in software architecture and software reuse. He also registered patents as inventor in the UK, USA and at international level.

Yang Li is a principal researcher from British Telecom. He holds three degrees in computer science and has fourteen years industrial hand-on experience in operational research. In the past, he applied intelligent technology to solving many service operation and optimisation problems in BT, as well as providing consultancy to external organisations such as Etisalat and MoD. His work on service reservation, operational forecasting, strategic co-location, tactical re-skilling, fleet optimisation and ontology management has led to many patent filings, scientific publications and software applications that support real-world business operations. He was winner of BT best paper award, for his PhD work on applying artificial intelligence to software engineering. He also received BCS business analyst of the year medal and was highly commended by IET for his pioneering work on agent-based service analytics, a bottom-up, evidence-based, IT-driven approach to business optimisation.