Going green with refactoring: sustaining the "worldwide virtual machine".

This year's SPLASH theme is the "Internet as a World-Wide Virtual Machine" to highlight the challenges of continuous system growth, multi-site development, big data, with millions of interacting users and devices. This panel will discuss how refactoring systems can enable them to "go green" by reducing power consumption, increasing simplicity of interface, and/or extending system longevity in a world of constantly changing technology.