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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | DECEMBER 2017 | VOL. 60 | NO. 12 review articles THE …

The use of Artificial Intelligence (ai), and more specifically of Deep Learning (dl), in modern
software systems, is nowadays widespread and continues to grow. At the same time, its …

Context Sustainability is considered as either a quality requirement or a quality characteristic
that should be included in software when environmental protection concerns are being …

Source code hosting websites (code forges) have recently changed to more social
environments, and the contribution process evolved to the so-called pull-based …

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 …

Existing evaluation benchmarks of language models of code (code LMs) focus almost
exclusively on whether the LMs can generate functionally-correct code. In real-world …

Recent work has studied the effect that factors such as code obfuscation, refactorings and
data types have on energy efficiency. In this paper, we attempt to shed light on the energy …

Context: Cloud computing's rise as the primary platform for software development and
delivery is largely driven by the potential cost savings. However, it is surprising that no …

Software energy consumption is a relatively new concern for mobile application developers.
Poor energy performance can harm adoption and sales of applications. Unfortunately for the …

Software is a fundamental part of today's society. However, both users and software
professionals need to be aware that its use impacts on the environment, due to the high …