Mobile and IoT devices have proliferated our daily lives. However, these miniaturized
computing systems should be highly energy-efficient due to their ultrasmall form factor …

Motivation: In modern it systems, the increasing demand for computational power is tightly
coupled with ever higher energy consumption. Traditionally, energy efficiency research has …

Ethereum is a blockchain platform that hosts and executes smart contracts. Executing a
function of a smart contract burns a certain amount of gas units (aka, gas usage). The total …

Context. The demand for green software design is steadily growing higher especially in the
context of mobile devices, where the computation is often limited by battery life. Previous …

Software engineers make use of design patterns for reasons that range from performance to
code comprehensibility. Several design patterns capturing the body of knowledge of best …

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous in the recent years, but the complaints about
energy consumption are almost universal. On Android, the developer can choose among …

Computation offloading is indispensable for mobile edge computing (MEC). It uses edge
resources to enable intensive computations and save energy for resource-constrained …

Obtaining a good dataset to conduct empirical studies on the engineering of Android apps is
an open challenge. To start tackling this challenge, we present AndroidTimeMachine, the …

Abstract Machine learning is a popular method of learning functions from data to represent
and to classify sensor inputs, multimedia, emails, and calendar events. Smartphone …

In the digitization era, the battery consumption factor plays a vital role for the devices that
operate Android software, expecting them to deliver high performance and good …