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Pragmatic Architectural Framework to Design for Sustainability in Cloud Software Services

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The incorporation of sustainability in cloud software services design is crucial. This paper proposes a Pragmatic Architecting Framework addressing challenges related to sustainability multi-dimensionality and cloud computing characteristics. It aims to provide guidance on handling different cloud stakeholder engagements, offer decision support, and promote sustainability as a core aspect of software architecting. This research presents also the results of a systematic literature review on the sustainability-relating concerns that can affect architectural solutions.

This work is partly funded by the project SustainableCloud (project number OCENW.M20.243) of the research program Open Competition Domain Science by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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    Sahar Ahmadisakha & Vasilios Andrikopoulos

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  1. Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Bedir Tekinerdoğan

  2. Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

    Romina Spalazzese

  3. Ozyegin University, İstanbul, Türkiye

    Hasan Sözer

  4. University of Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

    Silvia Bonfanti

  5. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Danny Weyns

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Table 3. Selected Primary Studies. Detailed code presentations and extracted records for each primary study are available in the replication package. and the new replication package
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Ahmadisakha, S., Andrikopoulos, V. (2024). Pragmatic Architectural Framework to Design for Sustainability in Cloud Software Services. In: Tekinerdoğan, B., Spalazzese, R., Sözer, H., Bonfanti, S., Weyns, D. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2023 Tracks, Workshops, and Doctoral Symposium. ECSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14590. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66326-0_29

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