by Edward Curry, Souleiman Hasan, Umair ul Hassan, Micah Herstand, Sean O'Riain
Abstract:
The integration of sustainable thinking and performance within day-to-day business activities has become an important business need. Sustainable business requires information on the use, flows and destinies of energy, water, and materials including waste, along with monetary information on environment-related costs, earnings, and savings. Creating this holistic view of economic, social and environmental information is not a straightforward mission from an IT perspective, and implies tackling several challenges such as information granularity and overload, the different projections of the same factual information, and the heterogeneity of information systems. In this paper, we propose an entity-centric approach to Green Information Systems to assist organisations in forming a cohesive representation of the environmental impact of their business operations at both micro- and macro- levels. Initial results from a Small Medium-size Enterprise case study are discussed along with future research directions.
Reference:
Edward Curry, Souleiman Hasan, Umair ul Hassan, Micah Herstand, Sean O'Riain, "An Entity-Centric Approach To Green Information Systems", In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2011), Helsinki, Finland, pp. 1-7, 2011.
Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{Curry2011,
abstract = {The integration of sustainable thinking and performance within day-to-day business activities has become an important business need. Sustainable business requires information on the use, flows and destinies of energy, water, and materials including waste, along with monetary information on environment-related costs, earnings, and savings. Creating this holistic view of economic, social and environmental information is not a straightforward mission from an IT perspective, and implies tackling several challenges such as information granularity and overload, the different projections of the same factual information, and the heterogeneity of information systems. In this paper, we propose an entity-centric approach to Green Information Systems to assist organisations in forming a cohesive representation of the environmental impact of their business operations at both micro- and macro- levels. Initial results from a Small Medium-size Enterprise case study are discussed along with future research directions.},
address = {Helsinki, Finland},
author = {Curry, Edward and Hasan, Souleiman and ul Hassan, Umair and Herstand, Micah and O'Riain, Sean},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2011)},
file = {:Users/ed/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/Curry et al. - 2011 - An Entity-Centric Approach To Green Information Systems.pdf:pdf},
keywords = {CAMEE,LEIdataspace,SICT-CMF,data integration,entity-centric,green information systems,linked data},
mendeley-tags = {CAMEE,LEIdataspace,SICT-CMF},
pages = {1--7},
title = {{An Entity-Centric Approach To Green Information Systems}},
url = {http://www.edwardcurry.org/publications/cury_ECIS_EntityGreenIS_2011.pdf},
year = {2011}
}