Guest editorial: Special issue on algorithms and computational models for sustainable computing in cloud and data centers

The papers in this special section focus on the development of algorithms and computational models for sustainable computing in cloud and data centers. These papers bring together high quality contributions covering the topics of energy efficiency cloud computing, advances in sustainable cloud and data centers, energy aware applications at various levels of the computational and data storage processes, and emerging trends in sustainable computing. New research findings, novel approaches, and algorithms are presented for energy-efficient Cloud computing, energy-aware memory management solutions for data centers and processing of large data sets, energy aware scheduling approaches for data centers and processing of large data sets, energy consumption computational models, analytics and performance evaluations, and applications as well as emerging trends and applications.