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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Toward Model-Driven Sustainability Evaluation
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jörg Kienzle
  • Gunter Mussbacher
  • Benoit Combemale
  • Lucy Bastin
  • Nelly Bencomo
  • Jean-Michel Bruel
  • Christoph Becker
  • Stefanie Betz
  • Ruzanna Chitchyan
  • Betty H C Cheng
  • Sonja Klingert
  • Richard F Paige
  • Birgit Penzenstadler
  • Norbert Seyff
  • Eugene Syriani
  • Colin C Venters
Item Subtype Further Contribution (e.g. review article, editorial)
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Communications of the ACM
Publisher ACM Digital library
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0001-0782
Volume 63
Number 3
Page Range 80 - 91
Date 2020
Abstract Text Sustainability—the capacity to endure—has emerged as a concern of central relevance for society. However, the nature of sustainability is distinct from other concerns addressed by computing research, such as automation, self-adaptation, or intelligent systems. It demands the consideration of environmental resources, economic prosperity, individual well being, social welfare, and the evolvability of technical systems. Thus, it requires a focus not just on productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency, but also the consideration of longer-term, cumulative, and systemic effects of technology interventions, as well as lateral side effects not foreseen at the time of implementation. Furthermore, sustainability includes normative elements and encompasses multi-disciplinary aspects and potentially diverging views. As a wicked problem (see the sidebar “Wicked Problems”), it challenges business-as-usual in many areas of engineering and computing research.
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Other Identification Number merlin-id:20945
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