The article is devoted to one of the components sustainable development cities - creation an urban "green" infrastructure. such infrastructure in contributes increase flow benefits from ecosystem services and important trend formation a green economy. Particular attention paid assessment economic efficiency cities. methodological basis for justifying introduction eco-infrastructure mathematical...

Prefabricated construction, a new direction for the future development of the Chinese construction industry, can maximize the requirements of “green”. As a new form of green building, prefabricated construction is of particular interest. On account of the immature development of the green building market in China, the investment risk for prefabricated construction is higher than for traditional...

Environmental friendliness has been regarded as a fundamental characteristic of sustainability and competitiveness, yet such eco-friendliness is often not performed well. Based on the relationship matrix in the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method and fuzzy logic, this paper presents an original integrated approach that, by linking competitive bases, green capabilities, and providers, aims ...

The incorporation of ecological objectives in the design of information systems has gained increasing attention by IS research in recent years. Nevertheless, from the perspective of IT Service Management (ITSM), comprehensive approaches are still warranting attention. The objective of this paper is therefore to develop a process for the management of ecology in ITSM. By using the method of refe...

Recent developments in climate concern have lead to changes in technology to reduce energy consumption in order to decrease green house gas emissions, as well as cost reduction. One of the methods (re)introduced is virtualization. Virtualization makes it possible to consolidate multiple operating systems on one hardware platform, making utilization of hardware resources more efficient. This res...

Researches on green data centers have defined guidelines and end-to-end methodologies to increase energy efficiency. Most of these approaches require a disrupting reengineering of the infrastructure and significant upfront investments. Smaller data centers need to reach green objectives with a more incremental approach. The EnergIT project proposes a methodology and related tools that support t...

Energy consumption in data centers can be reduced by efficient design of the data centers and efficient management of computing resources and cooling units. A major obstacle in the analysis of data centers is the lack of a holistic simulator, where the impact of a new computing resource (or cooling) management approach can be tested with different design (i.e., layout and configuration) of data...

In the early 1990s, true green or blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with enough intensity for commercial applications were not available. Eagle-Picher and North Carolina State University (NCSU) had achieved groundbreaking developments in creating zinc selenide blue and green lasers and LEDs, but needed financial assistance to continue the research and development. With funding from the Advanced...