MOTIVATION

The length of a paper is no longer evidence that the work was done

With the general availability of large language models, the human cost of producing text has fallen to near zero while the environmental cost is rising exponentially. The cost of producing results that someone else can reproduce has not.

The ecoCompute conference has shown that a “show me the numbers” culture works in practice. ecoCompute Science gives that culture a home with peer review. Every submission includes a tangible artifact that reviewers run, use or inspect.

It is not a research-only event. Companies, public bodies, open source projects and independent practitioners are as welcome as universities. Show us your tool, your product or your production system, as long as reviewers can use it and see that it does what you say it does.

The scope is resource- and impact-aware computing. That covers the resources computing uses, such as energy, hardware, memory and bandwidth, and the impact it has, such as carbon emissions, water use and electronic waste. It also covers the methods used to measure and account for both.

Three things we do differently

Everything is built around the artifact, not around the text.

  1. Artifact first

Every submission includes a tangible artifact that reviewers run, use or inspect, such as a running system or the design documents of a system. An archive file or a container image is sufficient. No hosting platform is required.

Each artifact comes with a precise, step-by-step guide so that a reviewer can check the reported results without asking the authors. Every number in the write-up has a source.

  1. Two-page write-up

The write-up is a guide to the artifact, not the evidence itself. It has at most two pages and states the claim, the method, the results, how it relates to existing work, and the questions the authors want to discuss.

Bullet points are fine throughout. Polished prose is not a criterion for acceptance.

  1. No presentations

The event consists entirely of discussion, following the session format used at ICT4S.

There are no slide presentations. Each accepted submission is discussed in three separate sessions, with a different group of participants in each.

Energy and carbon measurements are not bit-reproducible. The review process accounts for this explicitly.

Authors state which property of their results is expected to be stable, that is an ordering, a direction or an effect size, and within what tolerance. They report the variance across their own runs rather than a single mean.

A reviewer who reproduces the stated ordering but not the absolute values has reproduced the claim, provided the claim was formulated in those terms.
Artifact requirements
THE EVENT

Online, discussion only, three sessions per submission

Online

The event is held entirely online. Nobody has to travel or book accommodation.

Three sessions per submission

Each accepted submission is allocated three discussion sessions. The author participates in all three.

Registration per session

Participants register for individual sessions in advance. Group size is limited so that every participant is able to contribute.

Reading in advance

The two-page submissions are circulated one week beforehand. Having read them is a condition of participation in a session.

Session notes returned to the author

Notes from each session are produced with LLM assistance, sent to the author, and serve as input to the full paper.

Show your work, get feedback

A finished product is as welcome as work in progress. Either way, the sessions are there to discuss what you built and how to make it better.
PROCESS

Review and publication

  1. 01

    Submission

    Two pages and a tangible artifact that reviewers run, use or inspect.
  2. 02

    Kick-the-tires phase

    The opening days of the review period are reserved for setup. Reviewers report any issue that prevents them from starting, and authors are given a short window in which to correct it. Artifacts should not fail on setup problems.
  3. 03

    Artifact evaluation

    A dedicated artifact evaluation committee runs, uses or inspects the artifact of every submission. The review outcome and the artifact status are published together with the paper.
  4. 04

    Stage one: presentation

    Accepted two-page submissions are discussed at the event, in three sessions each.
  5. 05

    Stage two: full paper

    Written after the event and shepherded by a committee member, who confirms that the claims do not exceed the evidence that was reviewed. The full paper is published in ECEASST: no fee for authors, no fee for readers.
Read the full process
WHO

Organisers

ecoCompute Science is organised by:
Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Lamprecht

Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Lamprecht

Publication track | University of Potsdam

Prof. Dr. Verena Majuntke

Prof. Dr. Verena Majuntke

Programme | HTW Berlin

Geerd-Dietger (Didi) Hoffmann

Geerd-Dietger (Didi) Hoffmann

Artifacts and infrastructure | Green Coding Solutions

Programme committee

The programme committee reviews the submissions and shepherds the full papers. Further members are being invited.
Mira Weber

Mira Weber

HTW Berlin

Prof. Dr. Michael Witt

Prof. Dr. Michael Witt

HTW Berlin

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Hönig

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Hönig

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Prof. Dr. Henning Klaffke

Prof. Dr. Henning Klaffke

Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg

Dr. Ivano Malavolta

Dr. Ivano Malavolta

Associate Professor | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Dr. Romain Jacob

Dr. Romain Jacob

ETH Zurich

Dr. João Saraiva

Dr. João Saraiva

Associate Professor | Universidade do Minho

Dr. Nico Görnitz

Dr. Nico Görnitz

Independent ML engineer

Prof. Dr. Marie Bergmann

Prof. Dr. Marie Bergmann

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Dr. Andreas Schmidt

Dr. Andreas Schmidt

Saarland University

Nikolas Becker

Nikolas Becker

Head of Policy & Science | Gesellschaft für Informatik

Linda Becker

Linda Becker

Hochschule Bochum

Dr. Jo Walton

Dr. Jo Walton

University of Sussex

Dr. Luís Cruz

Dr. Luís Cruz

Assistant Professor | Delft University of Technology

Dr. Lauritz Thamsen

Dr. Lauritz Thamsen

Lecturer | University of Glasgow

Prof. Dr. Norbert Seyff

Prof. Dr. Norbert Seyff

Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz

Dr. Christina Bremer

Dr. Christina Bremer

University of Cambridge

Dr. Birgit Penzenstadler

Dr. Birgit Penzenstadler

Associate Professor | University of Limerick

Prof. Dr. Stefan Naumann

Prof. Dr. Stefan Naumann

Hochschule Trier, Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld

Dr. Loïc Lannelongue

Dr. Loïc Lannelongue

Assistant Research Professor | University of Cambridge

Dr. Ada Diaconescu

Dr. Ada Diaconescu

Associate Professor | Télécom Paris

Anita Schüttler

Anita Schüttler

Head of IT Sustainability | neuland - Büro für Informatik

Scott Chamberlin

Scott Chamberlin

Co-Founder & CTO | Neuralwatt

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We are looking for authors from research and industry, for reviewers, and for people who tell us where this format breaks down. Get in touch.
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ecoCompute, the conference

ecoCompute Science originates in the ecoCompute conference, held in Munich in 2024 and in Berlin in 2025. A large in-person event takes a lot of organising, so there will be no in-person ecoCompute in 2027. The talks, speakers and schedules of both conferences remain available online.
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