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The 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) will bring together researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in low carbon and sustainable computing. The workshop will provide a forum for sharing new ideas, for presenting ongoing work and early results, as well as for bringing forward well-founded criticism.
LOCO 2024 is an initiative of the Scottish Programming Languages Institute (SPLI), supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), and was inspired by the Programming for the Planet (PROPL) workshop.
About
The carbon footprint of ICT is rising despite the urgent need to decarbonise society and to stay within planetary tolerance levels. The operational and embodied carbon emissions from ICT are estimated to already contribute 2 to 3 percent of the global emissions – very much rivalling aviation – and ICT’s footprint is expected to rise further over the next decades. This development is due to major computing trends such as AI/ML, Big Data, and the Internet of Things, and this growth in emissions from computing is unsustainable.
The LOCO workshop aims to provide a forum for ideas, work, and criticism that aims to reduce the emissions from computing. We invite researchers and practitioners across research areas and application domains to take part and contribute to our workshop.
The main focus of the workshop is on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from computing. However, computing science research and practice that helps to reduce other emissions or to mitigate the effects of climate change in another way is also in scope.
The workshop welcomes submissions that describe new ideas and visions, just as much as reports describing ongoing work, completed projects, and practical tools. In addition, the workshop also welcomes work that uncovers and criticises significant problems with established ways and emerging trends.
Dates
Extended abstracts and workshop presentations:
- extended abstract submission: 24 Sep 2024
- notification of acceptance: 5 Nov 2024
- workshop day: 3 Dec 2024
Post-proceedings:
- proceedings paper submissions: 28 Feb 2025
- notifications of acceptance: 11 Apr 2025
- revised final camera-ready papers: 6 Jun 2025