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Green Software Product: The Empirical Study on Social Factor and Measurements

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Intelligent Sustainable Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 578))

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Today's digitised world is concerned with software products that highlight sustainability and green compliance with social requirements and expectations. Literature investigations reveal that many studies have focussed on green hardware. Nevertheless, little effort was proposed to ensure the greenness of software that complies with the specification. Green software products are essential because they may address issues related to sustainability and ensure that software can be used indefinitely. According to the current literature, investigations on the social sustainability of software products still have a deficit. The green elements are still needed for further investigation in the scope of green assessment of software products. This study aims to identify the principal factor and measurements of the social sustainability requirements of a green software product. The analysis of the factor and measurements shows strong relationships between them. The results are validated through the empirical study conducted with 102 respondents.

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The Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education funded this research under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2019/ICT01/UKM/01/1).

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  1. Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Komeil Raisian, Jamaiah Yahaya & Siti Rohana Ahmad Ibrahim

  2. Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

    Aziz Deraman

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  1. School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK

    Atulya K. Nagar

  2. Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

    Dharm Singh Jat

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Durgesh Kumar Mishra

  4. Global Knowledge Research Foundation, Ahmedabad, India

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Raisian, K., Yahaya, J., Deraman, A., Ibrahim, S.R.A. (2023). Green Software Product: The Empirical Study on Social Factor and Measurements. In: Nagar, A.K., Singh Jat, D., Mishra, D.K., Joshi, A. (eds) Intelligent Sustainable Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 578. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7660-5_3

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