The 2nd  
International Workshop on
                                      Green Computing and Renewable  
Energy (GCRE)

                                                 Niagara Falls,  
Ontario, Canada
                                                         August  
27-29, 2012

                                         https://sites.google.com/site/gcre2012/


Goal and Scope
===========
The International Workshop on Green Computing and Renewable Energy  
aims to bring together academia, research scholars, business  
entrepreneurs, practitioners, managers and policy makers responsible  
in delivering Green Computing (IT and IS) and Renewable Energy for  
competitive advantage and cost savings in modern organizations both  
industrial and business sectors. The papers presented will be included  
in the conference proceedings and best papers invited to form book  
chapters on Green Computing and Renewable Energy.

Contributions invited but not limited to the following:
- Energy Management Systems
- Environmental management systems
- Sustainable development
- Green Business
- Green Technology
- Renewable Energy
- Consumer Electronics Sustainability
- Environment and Social policies
- Corporate Sustainability
- Sustainable e-Healthcare
- Forensic Informatics
- Healthcare Record Management
- Biomedical applications
- Forensic finance
- Bioinformatics
- Biometric Security
- Patient Record Systems
- Corporate Social Responsibilities
- Corporate Governance
- IT Governance
- Sustainability & Entrepreneurship
- Carbon Footprints
- Retail Facilities Management
- Healthcare Informatics
- Eco Systems
- Financial Engineering
- Informatics Finance
- Environmental Issues
- Energy & Sustainability
- e-agriculture and technology transfer
- Social Engineering
- Ergonomics and Benchmarking
- Climate Change

Important Dates
====================================
Submission Deadline:       March 31, 2012 (Extended)
Author Notification:          April 10, 2012
Final Manuscript Due:       May 10, 2012

Paper Submission
======================================
The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of  
Procedia Elsevier, and should not exceed 6 pages in length. File  
formats must be in PDF.

Submission Page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gcre12

Publication
======================================
All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will  
be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science  
in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD).  
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and  
attend the conference to present the work.

Organizing Committee
======================================
Program Committee Chairs
Omar Cherkaoui, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Charles Despins, P-DG / Pr. & CEO at Prompt inc. Canada

Steering Committee Chairs
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Senol Zafer Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey

Publicity Chairs
Jacques Mc Neill, Green ICT Initiative, Prompt Inc., Canada
Imen Limam, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada

Program Committee Members
Pierluigi Siano, University of Salerno, Italy
Daniel GarraÌn, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain
Marco Listanti, University of Rome La Sapienza
Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia, USA
Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany
Ho Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Shengming Jiang, South China University of Technology, China
Liqun Fu, The Chinese University of HongKong, HongKong
Raffaele Bolla, University of Genova, Italy
Tasos Dagiuklas, University of Patras, Greece
Luca Chiaraviglio, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Imen Limam, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Christoph Lange, DeutscheTelekom AG, Germany
Suresh Goyal, Head of Green Research, Bell Labs, USA
Steve Fortune, Bell Labs, USA
Christos Politis, Kingston University, UK
Michela Meo, Politecnico Di Torino, Italy
Gianluca Rizzo, Institute Imdea, Spain
Jean-Yves Leboudec, EPFL, Switzerland
Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University, USA
Yaohui Jin, Shangai Jiao Tong University