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For ethical reasons, the conservation of cultural heritage is a duty for all nations. Slowly, decision makers are beginning to understand that caring about cultural heritage and especially about museums, library and archival collections is a valuable long-term investment for their economy and in the interest of their citizens. The accessibility of movable heritage depends not only on its direct conservation but also on preventive conservation because the quality of the indoor environment is crucial for the preservation of a collection. Sensitive materials, displayed in an aggressive environment may suffer from chemical attack of pollutants, leading to irreversible damage after only a few weeks of inappropriate exposure.

The interpretation of results on the impact of pollutants on the degradation of artifacts and consequently, any appropriate measure to prevent damage, requires close collaboration between multidisciplinary key players: chemist concerned with environmental effects and material degradation, physicists concerned with microclimate and physical deterioration mechanism, conservators, conservation scientist, art historians, curators, environmental engineers, show case manufacturers, and even politicians and decision makers concerned with international standards.

Forests are an essential element of the European cultural, geographical and environmental landscapes. They cover approximately one third of Europe’s land area, and their role in water provision is even more pivotal, as forested landscapes are the preferred sources for generation, storage and export of drinking water to supply the human population.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Conference on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, EE-LSDS, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013. It served as the final event of the COST Action IC0804 which started in May 2009. The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 contributions. In addition, 7 short papers and 3 demo papers are included in this book. The papers are organized in sections named: modeling and monitoring of power consumption; distributed, mobile and cloud computing; HPC computing; wired and wireless networking; and standardization issues.

The start of the COST Action 624 brought together most of the researchers actively involved in the research area from 23 countries and since then the Action has been including new researchers entering the field. Special emphasis has been on the involvement of young researchers, pre-docs, PhD’s and post docs, the idea being, that the most long lasting network can be created between the young researchers at the start of their career. The action has been open to involve new specialities in the workshops.