Green Data - Green Software: Open Issues and Challenges Ahead

2η Ηµερίδα για τις Πράσινες Τεχνολογίες Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών (GreenICT)
Αθήνα, 17 Μαΐου 2010
green data
green software
open issues and challenges ahead
Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Lugano, Switzerland
Thanks to Ferdinando Villa, Andrea Rizzoli,

Marcello Donatelli, Sander Janssen, Robert Muetzerfeld
UN Agenda 21
•“Bridging the data gap”
• Limited records in less-developed countries
ⓔ ioannis@idsia.ch
May 17, 2010
vs
• “Data overflow” in the developed world, though:
• poor standards,
• legacy systems,
ⓦ www.athanasiadis.info
• not digitized
Athens, Greece
• not effectively shared/reused

•Environmental data are a resource in scarcity

Green ICT
• esp. those needed for scientific computations
2
Environmental Informatics
•study and development of adequate techniques for
collection, storage, retrieval and processing of complex
May 17, 2010
environmental data
(Page and Avouris, 1995)
Databases Usability Requirements for Soil Water Air

Communications
environmental Landscape Radiation
Athens, Greece
Software Engineering
problems Noise Waste
Hardware
Information Environmental Environmental

Technology Informatics Sciences
Neural Networks
EC GA Management Economy
Fuzzy Logic Problem solving Administration Law
Green ICT
Bayesian Techniques Engineering Ecology
3 (Page and Hilty, 1994)

Data aspects
•Environmental data are subjective, and have different
readings
May 17, 2010
• conflicting user perspectives

• they are result of a scientific measurement process
(a large amount of knowledge is hidden behind it)
•Meta-data and annotations

Athens, Greece
• More than spatiotemporal referencing

• More than classifications
•Environmental data are (?) in public domain

Green ICT
• Not treated as such

• Ownership, privacy, industrial property
4
Software aspects
•Environmental applications are a challenging testbed for IT
technologies
May 17, 2010
•...though not used that often for demonstrating IT systems

• too complex and interdisciplinary field
• lots of uncertainties
•Environmental software process very seldom involves
trained computer scientists

Athens, Greece
• EI is not a “big business”

• lack of monetary stimulation? (Swayne 2003)
•New collaborations are needed
Green ICT
5
Key issues
(inspired from the SEAMLESS Project)
Green ICT Athens, Greece May 17, 2010
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Ioannis N. Athanasiadis ⓦ www.athanasiadis.info ⓔ ioannis@idsia.ch
SIM
U L AT
I O N
Solution Space
OP
TIM
IZA
(1) Data explosion
TIO
N
(2) Variety of model paradigms
•Combinatorial models
• agricultural management generators
May 17, 2010
•Numerical integration (biophysical) models

• Plant planting and growth simulation
•Economical models
Athens, Greece
• Farm income optimization

• Market price forecasting
•Decision making models

Green ICT
• Socio-economic indicators
8
9
(3) People
Where is my farm?
(4) Data issues

(complexity, space, time, semantics, provenance, ...)
Socio-economic and argicultural
policy data are attached to NUTS
Where is my farm? and FADN regions
May 17, 2010
NUTS-2
FADN
Athens, Greece
Green ICT
11 Intersection
12
(area of study)
“Representative farm”
Where is my farm?
Soil and climate data are classified in
Where is my farm? homogeneous “agro-environmental zones”
May 17, 2010
AEZ-3
Athens, Greece
Green ICT
13 AEZ-1 AEZ-2
14
Where is my farm?
Lets put all layers together!
15
AEZ-1
FADN
Here is my farm!!
Where is my farm?
AEZ-3
AEZ-2
NUTS-2
Lets put all layers together!
IT made complexity even worse?
I need the
LeafAreaIndex Here it is my
LAI
May 17, 2010
I can produce Who can calculate

AirTempMAX Air.Temperature.Max.Daily?
Athens, Greece
What about VAR1?

Εχω χάσει τον
µπούσουλα
Green ICT
Capito?
MeanSoilTemperature is a daily
or an annual average?
16 !@#$%#$%^?
Environmental Informatics Tools
Data capture and storage OK

May 17, 2010
Data processing Partly

Athens, Greece
End user applications OK

Green ICT
Software development tools HUH?

17
Software Engineering for EI ...
•re-use of models is limited
•software development platforms are rarely used
May 17, 2010
•need to strengthen the “separation of concerns” concept
•Though, the attention is growing...

Make IT Green
Cloud Computing and its
Contribution to Climate Change
Athens, Greece
Greenpeace International
Green ICT
18
Ιn the Semantic Web era...
May 17, 2010
Government
Distribution Contribution
Industry
Agent Agent
Contribution Distribution
Agent Agent NGO
Athens, Greece
Management
Management Agent
Agent
Distribution
Agent
Contribution
Contribution Agent
Agent Distribution
Agent
Research Environmental Institute

Green ICT
Public Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
(Athanasiadis 2007)
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Soft Eng tools for Green
Software development process
•3 official releases
• Mar 2006 (prototype 1 - stand alone app)
May 17, 2010
• Sep 2007 (prototype 2 - web-based app)

• Dec 2008 (prototype 3 - web-based app)
•SVN system
•Trac system
•Virtual stand-up meetings

Athens, Greece
•“Hackathlons”
Green ICT
21
22
An eclipse plugin for GAMS
Knowledge Management
Semantic models
specified as ontologies
May 17, 2010
ThinkLab
Generated Java Beans

Generated
Generated Domain
Athens, Greece
Classes
attr1 Classes
attr1
attr1
Manager
attr1
oper1()
oper1()
oper2() (off-line mode)
oper2()
Database Structure
Green ICT
Attribute Attribute
Hibernate
Entity Relation
Entity
AgrOntologies
25
ThinkCap
26
ThinkCap
27
Social simulation of water consumers
28
Meteo radar data management
QA/QC in Saudi Aramco SN
What is the quality of the current ozone value?
May 17, 2010
O3
O3 max
Athens, Greece
O3 min Decision Ozone Quality Index:

Model in range [0-3%)
NOx
Green ICT
CO
29 Time
Past recordings Now

30
ARIES
TaToo: Tagging green resources
May 17, 2010
Evaluate & Validate
Annotate
Discover
Athens, Greece
INA
Search
Users Web TaTooTags Meta Resources

Green ICT
31
Three dimensions of
ecoinformatics
(Villa 2009)
Recognize, name and serialize
1
Nature’s concepts and objects
(i) Aus L. 1758 (ii) Aus L. 1758 (iii) Aus L. 1758 (iv) Aus L. 1758
Aus aus
Aus aus Aus aus

May 17, 2010
L. 1758 L. 1758
L. 1758
Aus bea
Archer
Aus aus 1965
L. 1758
Aus bea
Aus cea Aus cea

Archer
Fry 1989 Fry 1989
1965
Athens, Greece
Linneaus 1758 Archer 1965 Fry 1989 Tucker 1991
•Names and ecological entities have a many-to-many

relationship
•Entities in ecology depend on scale, interpretation and

Green ICT
purpose
•Classification of ecological entities is desperately complex
33 without formal methods
Represent human knowledge
2
about Nature and match it to data
May 17, 2010
Athens, Greece
•Scientists need reliable language to communicate their

hypotheses
•“Declarative modeling” is an umbrella term for this subset

of ecoinformatics
Green ICT
•Evidence (data) must be expressible in the same

34 languages to ease validation
Extract synthetic knowledge
3
from observations
May 17, 2010
Athens, Greece
•data-driven ecology & environmental modelling

•transparent access of data and models
•synthesize data, detect regularities, build or improve

models
Green ICT
•More and more relevant as real-time data become

35 overwhelmingly available and scientific synthesis does not
IT assets
•Abstraction, Separation of concerns
•Modularity
May 17, 2010
•Open source culture and practice

•Requirements engineering
•Mining repositories
•Design patterns
Athens, Greece
•Software lifecycle
•Knowledge engineering
Green ICT
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(EasterBrook 2008)
Open challenges
•Accelerate science - complex simulation
•Scientific data sharing
May 17, 2010
•Open collaborative science

•Power aware computing
•Advanced DSS incl assessment and planning
•Stakeholders - social media

Athens, Greece
Green ICT
37
Conclusion
•A “sustainable development” software engineering
process is needed for environmental data and models
May 17, 2010
We can start now to lay the

Athens, Greece
groundworks of tomorrows
applications
Green ICT
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2η Ηµερίδα για τις Πράσινες Τεχνολογίες Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών (GreenICT)
Αθήνα, 17 Μαΐου 2010
Ευχαριστώ πολύ
Thank you
Γιάννης Αθανασιάδης
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland
http://www.athanasiadis.info - ioannis@idsia.ch

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2η Ηµερίδα για τις Πράσινες Τεχνολογίες Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών (GreenICT)

Αθήνα, 17 Μαΐου 2010

Thanks to Ferdinando Villa, Andrea Rizzoli,

• not effectively shared/reused

•Environmental data are a resource in scarcity

• esp. those needed for scientific computations

Databases Usability Requirements for Soil Water Air

Information Environmental Environmental

Bayesian Techniques Engineering Ecology

3 (Page and Hilty, 1994)

• conflicting user perspectives

•Meta-data and annotations

• More than spatiotemporal referencing

•Environmental data are (?) in public domain

• Not treated as such

•...though not used that often for demonstrating IT systems

trained computer scientists

• EI is not a “big business”

•Numerical integration (biophysical) models

• Farm income optimization

•Decision making models

(4) Data issues

I can produce Who can calculate

What about VAR1?

Data capture and storage OK

Data processing Partly

End user applications OK

Software development tools HUH?

•need to strengthen the “separation of concerns” concept

•Though, the attention is growing...

Research Environmental Institute

Public Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

• Sep 2007 (prototype 2 - web-based app)

•Virtual stand-up meetings

Generated Java Beans

O3 min Decision Ozone Quality Index:

Past recordings Now

Evaluate & Validate

Users Web TaTooTags Meta Resources

Aus aus Aus aus

Aus cea Aus cea

Linneaus 1758 Archer 1965 Fry 1989 Tucker 1991

•Names and ecological entities have a many-to-many

•Entities in ecology depend on scale, interpretation and

•Scientists need reliable language to communicate their

•“Declarative modeling” is an umbrella term for this subset

•Evidence (data) must be expressible in the same

•data-driven ecology & environmental modelling

•synthesize data, detect regularities, build or improve

•More and more relevant as real-time data become

•Open source culture and practice

•Open collaborative science

•Stakeholders - social media

We can start now to lay the

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