Greenvolve at SANER 2026

Software is crucial for sustainability. Inefficient software consumes more computational resources, leading to increased energy usage and carbon emissions. As the digital infrastructure scales globally, optimizing software performance becomes essential not only for cost effectiveness but also for reducing environmental impact, which advocates designing, maintaining, and testing software systems that are energy-efficient, resource-conscious, and environmentally sustainable.

As the software evolves, developers often make numerous modifications to the software to address issues or implement new features. However, modifications may unintentionally degrade overall system performance and energy consumption, leading to performance regression. Furthermore, current testing practices are based on system-level evaluations in controlled environments. However, these approaches often struggle to keep up with rapid development cycles, such as those in DevOps, due to their high demands for resources and time.

Recent advances, such as improved cooling systems and the shift from local computing to large-scale data centers, have contributed to greater energy efficiency in software infrastructure. However, the growing demand for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), together with emerging computing technologies, such as quantum computing (QC), may offset these gains with their significant carbon footprint. Despite these challenges, AI and QC also have significant potential to promote sustainability through applications that optimize resource usage and support environmental monitoring.

Therefore, we propose the Greenvolve workshop with the following goals:

Discussing Opportunities for Green Software Engineering. Investigate how sustainability can be a part of software design, architecture, maintenance, and evolution, with a focus on energy efficiency and resource awareness.
Addressing Practical and Technical Challenges. Discuss how to integrate sustainability metrics into existing development and DevOps workflows, especially in fast-paced environments and modern architectures.
Fostering Collaboration. Encourage dialogue and cooperation among researchers and practitioners in the fields of software engineering, AI, quantum computing, and sustainability to share insights, tools, and best practices.
Shaping the Future of Green Software Evolution. Identify open research questions, emerging trends, and future directions in green software, including the role of AI and quantum technologies in reducing the environmental impact of digital infrastructure.

The proposed topics include, but are not limited to:

Call for papers

Topics include, but are not limited to

Green software design, architecture, maintenance, and evolution
Green performance testing and regression detection
Metrics and modeling for green software
Automation and tooling for green software
Benchmarks for performance and sustainability
Green DevOps practices
Empirical studies, case studies, experience reports, and practices on green software
Green AI and machine learning
Quantum computing and sustainability
Carbon footprint assessment and optimization in software

Submission

The workshop welcomes submission of three types of contributions:

Full papers (maximum 8 pages): papers describing mature research results, industrial case studies, or empirical findings related to workshop topics.
Short papers (maximum 4 pages): papers presenting promising ideas, tool descriptions, or initial results for which a full evaluation is not yet available. These may include early-stage research, novel approaches, or innovative applications in practice.
Position papers (maximum 2 pages) visionary papers offering perspectives on the future of performance engineering in the next 5 to 10 years. These papers may address anticipated challenges or emerging trends or call for specific research directions.

Submitted papers must have been neither previously accepted for publication nor concurrently submitted for review in another journal, book, conference, or workshop. All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at the time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option. IEEE paper templates can be accessed from their official location. Also, papers must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed page limits, which include figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to SANER 2026.

Organizing Committee

Fernando Castor, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Emanuela Guglielmi, University of Molise, Italy
Luana Martins, University of Salerno, Italy
Michele Tucci, SPENCER Lab, University of L’Aquila, Italy

Program Committee

Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Martin Beseda, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Diego Elias Costa, Concordia University, Canada
Maja H. Kirkeby, Roskilde University, Denmark
Ana Oprescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

more to come…

Important dates

(All deadlines are 23:59, Anywhere on Earth)

Abstract submission: December 12, 2025
Paper submission: December 18, 2025
Authors notification: January 14, 2026
Camera-ready version: January 20, 2026
Workshop dates: March 17, 2026

Contact

For any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: greenvolve2026@easychair.org