BACKGROUND Improvements in computing power can claim a large share of the credit for
many of the things that we take for granted in our modern lives: cellphones that are more …

ICT hold significant potential to increase resource and energy efficiencies and contribute to
a circular economy. Yet unresolved is whether the aggregated net effect of ICT overall …

Prevalent software engineering practices such as code reuse and the" one-size-fits-all"
methodology have contributed to significant and widespread increases in the size and …

Third-party libraries play a key role in software development as they can relieve developers
of the heavy burden of re-implementing common functionalities. However, third-party …

Programs are bloated. Our study shows that only 5% of libc is used on average across the
Ubuntu Desktop envi-ronment (2016 programs); the heaviest user, vlc media player, only …

With the proliferation of new hardware architectures and ever-evolving user requirements,
the software stack is becoming increasingly bloated. In practice, only a limited subset of the …

Object-Relational Map** (ORM) provides developers a conceptual abstraction for
map** the application code to the underlying databases. ORM is widely used in industry …

Most “Big Data” systems are written in managed languages, such as Java, C#, or Scala.
These systems suffer from severe memory problems due to the massive volume of objects …

Performance is a crucial attribute for most software, making performance analysis an
important software engineering task. The difficulty is that modern applications are …

Modern software is bloated. Demand for new functionality has led developers to include
more and more features, many of which become unneeded or unused as software evolves …