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Dr. Andrzej Lis

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Department of Business Excellence, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
Interests: sustainable and responsible innovations; case study analysis; bibliometrics

Dr. Adam Kozakiewicz

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Research and Academic Computer Network – National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: cloud computing; network and information security; IoT security; distributed computation

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Dear Colleagues,

A decade ago, Berl and colleagues highlighted that “energy efficiency is increasingly important for future information and communication technologies (ICT), because the increased usage of ICT, together with increasing energy costs and the need to reduce green house gas emissions call for energy-efficient technologies that decrease the overall energy consumption of computation, storage and communications” [1]. As we realized in our 2020 study, “dynamic growth of use of cloud computing systems results in increasing energy consumption. Consequently, more and more attention is given to energy efficiency issues both in research and theory development as well as business practice of cloud computing systems” [2]. Thus, with the goal of contributing to an exchange of ideas, we invite researchers to submit for publication papers discussing energy efficiency issues in cloud computing systems. It is our intent to combine expertise from fields related to cloud computing, energy, and sustainable management. The scope of this Special Issue will thus cover a variety of topics, including but not limited to:

Energy-efficient hardware;
Energy-aware scheduling;
Energy-aware data centers;
Green cloud computing;
Cloud computing energy efficiency in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) development;
Network security and energy efficiency;
Energy-efficient IoT security
Economic, environmental, and social effects of energy efficiency in cloud computing systems.

Various types of articles are invited for publication, including original research (empirical) articles, case studies, review articles, and conceptual articles.

[1] Berl A, Gelenbe E, Di Girolamo M, Giuliani G, De Meer H, Dang MQ, et al. Energy-efficient cloud computing. Comput J 2010;53:1045–51. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1093/comjnl/bxp080.

[2] Lis A, Sudolska A, Pietryka I, Kozakiewicz A. Cloud Computing and Energy Efficiency: Mapping the Thematic Structure of Research. Energies 2020;13:4117. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en13164117.

Dr. Andrzej Lis
Dr. Adam Kozakiewicz
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Keywords

Energy efficiency
Energy-aware scheduling
Energy-aware data centers
Green cloud computing
Internet of Things (IoT)

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The Use of Blockchain Technology in Public Sector Entities Management: An Example of Security and Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing Data Processing

by Robert Karaszewski, Paweł Modrzyński and Joanna Modrzyńska

Energies 2021, 14(7), 1873; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en14071873 - 29 Mar 2021

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Blockchain technology is currently one of the trends considered to have a tremendous future ahead. It ensures data security, data sharing protection and automation development—elements that are of colossal importance in the era of cloud solutions, big data and Internet of Things (IoT) reality. Additionally, blockchain technology allows one to create new programmable ecosystems on an unprecedented scale. The implementation of blockchain technology leads not only to improving the flow of documents and data storage, as is the case with the creation of shared service centers (SSCs), but—as this paper shows—allows one to reduce the carbon footprint when servicing SSCs at a considerably higher organizational level at the same time. The example of an SSC in Elbląg, Poland, proves that cloud solutions enabling electronic documents flow and data storage combined with blockchain technology are tools essential for further SSCs development. Furthermore, such tools allow us not only to obtain economic effects (i.e., cost reduction), but also to achieve positive ecological effects (i.e., carbon footprint reduction). Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Energy Efficiency: In Search of Sustainability)

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Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing: Exploring the Intellectual Structure of the Research Field and Its Research Fronts with Direct Citation Analysis

by Adam Kozakiewicz and Andrzej Lis

Energies 2021, 14(21), 7036; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en14217036 - 27 Oct 2021

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The aim of the study is to explore the intellectual structure of the field and fronts in research on energy efficiency in the context of cloud computing and thus to contribute to science mapping of the research field. The research process was driven by the following study questions: (1) what are the most influential publications in the research field? and (2) what are the research fronts in the research field? The method of direct citation analysis was employed in the research process. Data for analysis were obtained from the Scopus database and analyzed with the use of VOSviewer science mapping software. In response to the first question, we identified the most influential publications in the research field and analyzed their types (i.e., whether they are original research papers or rather the “context” papers e.g., survey or review papers, framework papers, challenges papers, and study papers). Moreover, a comparison analysis between the types of papers among the most cited “classical” publications and “emerging stars” was conducted. In response to the second research question, we identified five research fronts concentrated around the issues of: virtual machine management (“VM”); task-focus, concerning data replication, task consolidation, and task scheduling (“task”); energy efficiency (“energy”); modelling and optimization (“model”); and energy efficiency in the networking context (“network”). Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Energy Efficiency: In Search of Sustainability)

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