A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE - An Approach to Reducing the Organizational Impact on Environment

Jorge Cavaleiro, André Vasconcelos, André Filipe Pedro

2010

Abstract

Green IT was developed from the growing concerns about the rise of the Information Systems energy cost and power consumption along with the need for an environmentally efficient image of the organization. This work addresses and links three main concerns: enterprise architecture modelling, need for energy cost cuts and energy efficiency of Information Technology. It describes a new method to estimate the IT architecture energy costs and CO2 emissions, based on the technology layer of the enterprise architecture, and some solutions for solving or, at least, reducing the environmental impact of the latter.

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Cavaleiro J., Vasconcelos A. and Filipe Pedro A. (2010). A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE - An Approach to Reducing the Organizational Impact on Environment . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-06-5, pages 451-455. DOI: 10.5220/0002899904510455


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@conference{iceis10,
author={Jorge Cavaleiro and André Vasconcelos and André Filipe Pedro},
title={A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE - An Approach to Reducing the Organizational Impact on Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={451-455},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002899904510455},
isbn={978-989-8425-06-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE - An Approach to Reducing the Organizational Impact on Environment
SN - 978-989-8425-06-5
AU - Cavaleiro J.
AU - Vasconcelos A.
AU - Filipe Pedro A.
PY - 2010
SP - 451
EP - 455
DO - 10.5220/0002899904510455