An Assessment Technique for Sustainability: Applying the IMAGINE Approach to Software Systems

This work adopts a framework from the environmental studies used to appraise the sustainable development of a set of industries, and adapts it for the use in contexts of IT and Software supported projects; we refer to the Imagine approach. To exemplify all the activities conducted and analyze the obtained results, this research selected a Car Sharing system operating in Germany since 2011 as an example, and each step of the Imagine approach is hence conducted on the light of this particular system.     «

This work adopts a framework from the environmental studies used to appraise the sustainable development of a set of industries, and adapts it for the use in contexts of IT and Software supported projects; we refer to the Imagine approach. To exemplify all the activities conducted and analyze the obtained results, this research selected a Car Sharing system operating in Germany since 2011 as an example, and each step of the Imagine approach is hence conducted on the light of this particular sys...     »