The ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF’25) is a premier international forum in emerging technologies in the broad field of computing. SCW 2025 is a workshop within CF’25 that addresses sustainability aspects of computing systems. Emphasis is on current and future challenges of sustainable computing in both academia and industry.
Submitting a paper
We invite prospective authors to submit original papers in areas including, but not limited to:
Impact assessment or life cycle analysis (LCA) of computing systems and technologies
- Novel methods and tools for LCA and impact assessment or measurement
- Evaluation of the environmental or social, direct or indirect impacts of ICT systems and technologies
- Carbon footprint of systems and technologies
- Attributional or consequential LCAs of computing systems or technologies
- Critical reviews of impact assessment or LCA methods
Novel methods and tools for systems ecodesign
- Repair/reuse/recycle strategies for computing systems, and integration in a circular economy
- Reusability of devices through hardware and software updates
- Long-term maintenance of hardware and software for lifetime extension
- Design methodologies to increase the lifetime or lower the impacts of systems
- ASIC design flows for sustainable devices and applications
- Reconfigurability for systems lifetime extension
- FPGA design flows for sustainable computing devices
- Hardware and software designs and methodologies for better traceability, interoperability and modularity
- Critical reviews of computing ecodesign methods
Computing systems for sustainability
- Novel exploitations of computing systems for improving the sustainability of applications
Sustainable computing technologies and architectures
- New systems exploited for sustainable computing : chiplets, architectures, AI hardware, cloud, quantum, etc.
- New software programming technologies for low energy processing
- New substrates for low environmental impacts
- Sustainable computing architectures, operating systems and applications
- Low environmental or social impact systems
- Reduced energy consumption application-specific designs, and methods to adjust resource requirements to the actual needs of the application
- Low energy video communication architectures
- Technologies and architectures for sustainable artificial intelligence services
- Novel power electronics for low energy computing systems
- Testing and verification of systems updates and update or maintenance mechanisms
Submissions may cover one or several of the three sustainability pillars : environmental, economic and social.
Submission Procedure
We encourage the submission of both full papers and short papers containing high-quality research describing original, unpublished work. Full papers are expected to provide well-rounded contributions, where novelty, originality, and sufficient preliminary evaluation are included. Short papers may be position papers or may describe preliminary or highly speculative work.
Full papers are a maximum of eight (8) pages (excluding references) and short papers are a maximum of four (4) (including references) pages.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library.
All papers should use the double-column ACM conference format. Page limits include figures, tables and appendices.
As the review process is double-blind, the removal of all identifying information from paper submissions is required (e.g., cite own (previous) work in the third person, avoid references to machines and/or systems that can identify the paper authors, etc.). Papers not conforming to the above submission policies on formatting, page limits, and the removal of identifying information, are likely to be automatically rejected. Authors are strongly advised to submit their papers with the final list of authors in the submission system, as changes may not be feasible at later stages (due to restrictions at the publisher)
By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.
Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will
be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your
paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.
Registration and No-show policy: At least one full registration is required from a submission author for each accepted paper and all accepted papers are expected to be presented in person
at the conference. If circumstances arise such that authors are unable to present their papers at the conference, they must contact the PC co-chairs with a proposal for a replacement presenter. A no-show will result in exclusion from the ACM digital library proceedings.
Important dates
All deadlines are AoE.
Paper submission deadline: February 28th, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 28th, 2025
Camera ready deadline: April 4th, 2025