Beyond Green: Evolution to Adaptability and Recyclability

In current social computing system, not only hardware but also software experiences a directly discarded mode. Such directly discarded mode may result in huge waste. The major challenge in green computing is the recyclability of the computing system. In order to address this challenge in the software field, this paper proposes a design idea of green software embodying the adaptability and recyclability. The adaptable and recyclable strategy may consist of two phases. The first one is compressing the increasingly deeper software stack, another one is keeping the functionality recycling and code reuse. The adaptability and recyclability mean automatically decomposing the complex software into several parts which are ease to be reused and automatically selecting the feasible parts for the on-writing software. And we also explore the system software design path to adaptability and recyclability in our previous work as well as in the future.