Automated Software Engineering Journal (Impact factor = 3.1)
In this Special Issue, we will explore the theme of “green software engineering for software sustainability” with a goal towards creating actionable outcomes that will affect how software engineering is practiced and taught in the future, in order to help organizations prioritize their sustainability objectives.
Topics:
- Energy-efficient choices for architecture and design patterns, algorithms, data structures, programming languages, language runtime and infrastructure.
- Architectural implications (architectural tactics, architectural styles, design patterns and anti-patterns) for green and sustainable software
- Practices for sustainability-aware software engineering
- Metrics and measures for sustainability-aware software engineering
- Sustainability-aware architectures in context (e.g., cloud-edge continuum)
- Teaching and training of skills and competencies in sustainability-aware software engineering
- Sustainable computing from a software engineering and software-intensive system perspective
- Applied, or experimented with, software engineering methodologies at all levels (from requirements elicitation to architecture design, coding, testing, and maintenance)
- Meta-analyses, and syntheses of studies to build theories on green and sustainable software; conceptual reflections related to software sustainability
- Progress on the various dimensions of software sustainability and their interplay
- Software adaptation for sustainability
- Tools to support sustainability-aware decision-making
- Sustainability of emerging computing technologies (AI systems, edge devices, generative AI-enabled applications)
- Green AI, lighter, less data-intensive, and less energy-consuming AI models and architectures
- Sustainable Large Language Models (LLMs) for software code
- Green Agentic AI
- Reduction of software organizations’ compute-heavy workloads
- Cloud and energy efficiency
- Standards on the environmental sustainability of software and AI software
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Journal’s submission guidelines https://link.springer.com/journal/10515/submission-guidelines. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process.
Prof. Dr. Elisa Yumi Nakagawa
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April 24th, 2026
Daniela Lopez de Luise 


