Active Energy-Aware Management of Business-Process Based Applications

Energy management is becoming a priority in the design and operation of complex service-based information systems, as the energy costs of IT infrastructures increase. This paper aims at introducing a novel interdisciplinary approach for the development of advanced active energy-aware business process applications, based on expertise from several research areas: Web service technologies, data deduplication, optimization, performance evaluation, model identification, robust and predictive control. The basic idea is that enforcing energy efficiency goals for the development of green business process systems can only be achieved by recognizing their multi-layer feedback nature, which can be successfully exploited by combining IT methodologies with methods and tools from systems and control theory.