Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, Volume 1

Ishfaq Ahmad is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. An IEEE fellow, Dr. Ahmad is a co-founder of the International Green Computing Conference and the founding editor-in-chief of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems. He is also an editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on parallel and distributed computing systems and their applications, optimization algorithms, multimedia systems, video compression, and energy-aware green computing. Sanjay Ranka is a professor in the Department of Computer Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. A fellow of the IEEE and AAAS, Dr. Ranka is the associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Sustainable Computing: Systems and Informatics, Knowledge and Information Systems, and the International Journal of Computing. His research interests include energy efficient computing, high performance computing, data mining, and informatics.