Sustainability Design in software and information systems engineering

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Modern society’s heavy reliance on software results in increasing vulnerability to the obsolescence and depreciation of critical software-dependent assets. This is exacerbated by the prominence of ultra-large-scale systems underpinning critical technical, social, scientific and economic infrastructure. As software is embedded in the social and technical fabric of our society, the rising importance of long-term concerns requires new perspectives and methods for identifying, measuring and assessing systemic effects of engineering decisions across the systems lifecycle. This requires a consideration of the interactions of the systems under design with the context in which they are embedded, since crucial effects emerge only in these interactions over time.