ICT and Green Sustainability Research and Teaching

Pattinson, Colin

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1794

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“…ICTs are technologies which were originally meant to support the exchange of information but in modern-day life ICTs are playing an increasingly important role in our day to day life as humans [14]. Said activities include collating, processing, storing and exchanging information quickly and easily, as well as offering alternative methods in which to work, improving supply chains, controlling transport, energy supply and so forth [15].…”

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Role of Information and Communication Technology in Green Supply Chain Implementation and Companies’ Performance

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Abstract:The aim of this study is to quantify the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) and its technological updates on the success of the green supply chain (GSC) implementation, as well as the benefits this affords. This research is applied to the Mexican maquiladora export industry. A model of structural equations is presented to know the importance of the integration of ICT, combined with the implementation of GSC and the generation of benefits with the use of ICT. The results indicate that there is a direct, positive effect (PE) and significant among the four latent variables (LTV) analyzed but the most noteworthy is the indirect effect that the variable updating the ICT has on the benefits of GSC, through the variable mediators' implementation of a GSC, since the direct effect of updating the ICT on the benefits of the implementation of GSC does not become significant. Whereby, it is recommended that the industry integrates and updates its ICT since, using the integrated and updated ICT and the implementation of a GSC, a series of economic, productive and environmental benefits will be created.

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Section: Integrating and Updating Ict In A Gscmentioning

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Role of Information and Communication Technology in Green Supply Chain Implementation and Companies’ Performance

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“…The role of ICT in the UN Sustainable Development Goals [1] has been highlighted by many authors [2][3][4]. However, ICT plays a dual role [5]: ICT can help to reduce the environmental impact of activities in the environment, but, at the same time, it is also a significant user of resources, so it is also a main contributor to the negative impact of human activities. The ICT industry represents approximately 2% of global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions [6]; this amount of emissions is equivalent to aviation [7].…”

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“…Regarding Green Computer Science as part of ICT and sustainable development [32], regrettably ICT sustainability has not been widely addressed in education [5]. Pattinson highlights that "ICT sustainability does not feature more strongly in school or University ICT curricula, and that, where it does appear, it is often a sub-part of a broader topic" [5]. These are some examples that are exceptions where sustainability is taken into account and the benefits are explained in every work.…”

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The Effect of Green Software: A Study of Impact Factors on the Correctness of Software

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Unfortunately, sustainability is an issue very poorly used when developing software and hardware systems. Lately, and in order to contribute to the earth sustainability, a new concept emerged named Green software which is computer software that can be developed and used efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact to the environment. Currently, new teaching methods based on students’ learning process are being developed in the European Higher Education Area. Most of them are oriented to promote students’ interest in the course’s contents and offer personalized feedback. Online judging is a promising method for encouraging students’ participation in the e-learning process, although it still has to be researched and developed to be widely used and in a more efficient way. The great amount of data available in an online judging tool provides the possibility of exploring some of the most indicative attributes (e.g., running time, memory) for learning programming concepts, techniques and languages. So far, the most applied methods for automatically gathering information from the judging systems are based on statistical methods and, although providing reasonable correlations, these methods have not been proven to provide enough information for predicting grades when dealing with a huge amount of data. Therefore, the great novelty of this paper is to develop a data mining approach to predict program correctness as well as the grades of the students’ practices. For this purpose, powerful data mining technologies taken from the artificial intelligence domain have been used. In particular, in this study, we have used logistic regression, decision trees, artificial neural network and support vector machines; which have been properly identified as the most suitable ones for predicting activities in the e-learning domains. The results have achieved an accuracy of around 74%, both in the prediction of the program correctness as well as in the practice grades’ prediction. Another relevant issue provided in this paper is a comparison among these four techniques to obtain the best accuracy in predicting grades based on the availability of data as well as their taxonomy. The Decision Trees classifier has obtained the best confusion matrix, and time and memory efficiency were identified as the most important predictor variables. In view of these results, we can conclude that the development of green software leads programmers to implement correct software.

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“…Also, ICT applications associated to the services sector are widely reported; for example, Tob-Ogu et al [14] report their use in road freight transport, Vogel [15] reports application in healthcare, and Alt [16] makes an analysis related to ICT uses in education and training. More specifically, ICT applications in sustainability are reported by Pattinson [17], which demonstrates the importance of this technology in sustainable operation, focusing on green production and social responsibility; Asongu et al [18] report the special case of ICT application in the Sub Saharan region and Añón Higón et al [19] report an important global analysis associated to ICT applied to environmental development.…”

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The Role of Planning and Implementation of ICT in Operational Benefits

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This article reports a model of structural equations that integrates four latent variables and six hypotheses among them: Integration of information and communication technology (ICT), investment in ICT, training in ICT, and operational benefits obtained in the supply chain (SC). The model is validated with information obtained from 80 surveys applied to manufacturing companies in the municipalities of Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, and Tijuana in Mexico. The information is validated by the Cronbach alpha index for internal validity and the R-square index for predictive validity. Partial least-squares algorithms are used to validate the hypotheses in the model and the results indicate that the integration of technology is the basis for the success of the implementation of information technologies, and that the application of these guarantees the obtaining of operational benefits in the productive system.

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ICT and Green Sustainability Research and Teaching

Cited by 19 publications

References 3 publications

Role of Information and Communication Technology in Green Supply Chain Implementation and Companies’ Performance

Role of Information and Communication Technology in Green Supply Chain Implementation and Companies’ Performance

The Effect of Green Software: A Study of Impact Factors on the Correctness of Software

The Role of Planning and Implementation of ICT in Operational Benefits

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