Is software "green"? Application development environments and energy efficiency in open source applications

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-71

  Capra, Eugenio ^a   Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Slaughter, Sandra A ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green IT; Software development application environment; Software energy efficiency

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LAYER; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; APPLICATION SOFTWARES; FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS; GREEN IT; IMAGE EDITING; IT SYSTEM; OPEN SOURCE APPLICATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS;

ABSTRACTING; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80055078392     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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