SITA-Research is an initiative which aims to encourage the collaboration of IT scientists world wide to develop Sustainable Information Technologies and Applications - or short - Sustainable IT.
Longevity - Efficiency - Refinability - Scalability
The Green Information Systems (Green IS) research direction addresses research in Sustainable Energy Management. This includes research in information systems and information systems technologies involved with the topics energy turnaround and energy efficiency, renewables and demand side management, plugin electrical vehicles, more efficient heating systems and refrigeration systems, intelligent lighting, smart buildings and cities, flexible distribution networks, green computing and green data centres.
The Sustainability in Enterprise IT research direction addresses research in efficient long term oriented Enterprise Information Systems (EIS). This includes IT innovations which allow process innovation and increased efficiency, IT triggered product innovation, innovation and efficiency based on improved enterprise analytics (simulation optimization, business intelligence, holistic approaches, strategic optimization, etc.). A special focus is on the longevity of EIS based on improved system adaptivity, connectivity to existing systems, standardization, utilization of the IT platform idea.
The Sustainable CS Methods and Techniques research direction addresses research in new and more efficient and more capable algorithms and computer science methods and techniques. This includes algorithm engineering and analysis, experimental algorithms and approaches, prototyping techniques, innovation in and development of compiler and tuner techniques, software-hardware co-design, innovations in software engineering concerning improved long term refineability and enhanceability of software, innovations in computer architecture and programming paradigms.
In general sustainability is meant to have not only an economic dimension and an ecological dimension, it has also a social dimension, which comes more in the focus in projects as our Sustainable Education initiative. The initiative aims to improve education and the access to education and knowledge by means of IT solutions. We also plan projects which deal with the concerns of certain groups of the society and supporting them by intelligent IT solutions as e.g. elderly persons.
