The advancement and popularity of smartphones have made it an essential and all-purpose
device. But lack of advancement in battery technology has held back its optimum potential …

Computational offloading can improve user experience of mobile apps through improved
responsiveness and reduced energy footprint. A fundamental challenge in offloading is to …

In the last decade, the rising trend in the popularity of smartphones motivated software
developers to increase application functionality. However, increasing application …

While mobile apps have become an integral part of everyday life, little is known about the
factors that govern their usage. Particularly the role of geographic and cultural factors has …

Computer Science often seems distant from itsnatural science cousins, especially software
engineering whichfeels closer to sociology and psychology than to physics …

We contribute by quantifying the effect of network latency and battery consumption on
mobile app performance and retention, ie, user's decisions to continue or stop using apps …

We propose a novel self-sustained ecosystem for energy sharing in the IoT environment. We
leverage energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, and crowdsourcing that facilitate the …

We propose a novel proactive composition framework of wireless energy services in a
crowdsourced IoT environment. We define a new model for energy services and requests …

We propose a novel type of service composition, called elastic composition which provides a
reliable framework in a highly fluctuating IoT energy provisioning settings. We rely on …

Smartwatch battery limitations are one of the biggest hurdles to their acceptability in the
consumer market. To our knowledge, despite promising studies analyzing smartwatch …