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Concepts of Green IT Engineering: Taxonomy, Principles and Implementation

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Among the challenges faced by modern civilization, are the key challenges associated with the shortage of energy resources, environmental issues and safety. Information technologies are an important factor of energy consumption, safety and green culture. The paper describes concepts and taxonomy of green IT engineering. Main principles of development and implementation, indicators and values of green computing are analyzed. Description of EU project GreenCo is provided.

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  1. National Aerospace University “KhAI”, 17 Chkalov Str., Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Vyacheslav Kharchenko & Oleg Illiashenko

  2. Centre of Safety Infrastructure Oriented Research and Analysis, RPC Radiy, 29 Tamm Str., Kirovograd, Ukraine

    Vyacheslav Kharchenko

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  2. PMBSSU, 68th, Dept of Intelligent Information Systems PMBSSU, 68th, Mykolaiv, Ukraine

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    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Kharchenko, V., Illiashenko, O. (2017). Concepts of Green IT Engineering: Taxonomy, Principles and Implementation. In: Kharchenko, V., Kondratenko, Y., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Green IT Engineering: Concepts, Models, Complex Systems Architectures. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 74. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44162-7_1

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