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A survey on sustainability in ICT: a computing perspective

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Alexandru-Adrian Tantar,

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GECCO Comp '14: Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2605695

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Abstract

The rise of the data centers industry, together with the emergence of large cloud computing that require large quantities of resources to be maintained, brought the need of providing a sustainable development process. Through this paper we aim to provide an introductory insight on the status and tools available to tackle this perspective within the evolutionary and genetic algorithms community. Existing advancements are also emphasized and perspectives outlined.

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Liu JYan LYan CQiu YJiang CLi YLi YCérin C(2023)Escope: An Energy Efficiency Simulator for Internet Data CentersEnergies10.3390/en1607318716:7(3187)Online publication date: 31-Mar-2023
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Zhang WWen YWah Wong YChuan Toh KChen C(2016)Towards Joint Optimization Over ICT and Cooling Systems in Data Centre: A SurveyIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials10.1109/COMST.2016.254510918:3(1596-1616)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/COMST.2016.2545109
Alsmadi IZarour M(2016)Empirical Evidences in Software-Defined Network Security: A Systematic Literature ReviewInformation Fusion for Cyber-Security Analytics10.1007/978-3-319-44257-0_11(253-295)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44257-0_11

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