Managing Uncertainties in ICT Services Life Cycle Assessment using Fuzzy Logic
Wed 26 Jun 2024 14:00 - 15:30 at ConverStations Room (A108) - ConverStation #2
The deluge of new software services we are facing is associated with an expansion of supporting infrastructures, including networks and data centers, and a rapid renewal of end- user devices. However, this surge is accompanied by significant environmental impacts and encompassing factors, such as CO2e emissions or the depletion of rare metals and minerals. Given systems’ complexity and rapid evolution, the ICT domain still struggles to understand its environmental impact and lacks openly available data to facilitate such assessments. Indeed, to the best of our knowledge, environmental impact assessments of ICT services have to deal with high margins of errors, which are insufficiently quantified and documented, yet wield a significant influence on the final estimation outcome. This paper, therefore, introduces an approach leveraging fuzzy logic to model and propagate uncertainties from the reference impact through the computations to the final results, encouraging their consideration by stakeholders. Adhering to the established 3-tier architecture used to conduct ICT services Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), we outline how assumptions can be mapped to fuzzy sets. We conclude with an illustrative example demonstrating the propagation of uncertainties throughout the environmental impact modeling process.
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09:00 - 10:30 | Remote Presentation #2Journal First / Research Papers at Nils Enlund Chair(s): Anna Furberg Group 7Zoom - https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/68775095116(Join Breakout room - Nils Enlund) | ||
09:00 22mResearch paper | Managing Uncertainties in ICT Services Life Cycle Assessment using Fuzzy Logic Research Papers Edouard Guegain Université de Lille, Thibault Simon Orange Labs / Inria / Univ. Lille, Romain Rouvoy University Lille 1 and INRIA, Alban Rahier Greenspector | ||
09:22 22mResearch paper | Building Up Green Software Life Cycle Model Research Papers Laura Partanen LUT University, Jari Porras LUT University , Lauri Kivimaki University of Turku, Jari-Matti Mäkelä University of Turku, Tuomas Mäkilä University of Turku, Kimmo Tarkkanen Turku University of Applied Sciences, Anne-Marie Tuikka Turku University of Applied Sciences | ||
09:45 22mPaper | Overcoming challenges in life cycle assessment of smart energy systems – A map of solution approaches Journal First Daniela Wohlschlager Research Center for Energy Economics (FfE e.V.) & TU Munich, Hannes Blum Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Severin Beucker Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability, Johanna Pohl Technische Universität Berlin, Magnus Fröhling Technical University of Munich DOI | ||
10:07 22mPaper | Assessing embodied carbon emissions of communication user devices by combining approaches Journal First Nina Lovehagen Ericsson, Jens Malmodin Ericsson Research, Pernilla Bergmark Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB DOI |
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