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 …

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 …

Energy software plays a crucial role in the energy transition, contributing to the sustainability
of the world. This paper presents a systematic summary and review of various software …

Mobile and wearable devices are nowadays the de facto personal computers, while desktop
computers are becoming less popular. Therefore, it is important for companies to deliver …

With millions of smartphones sold every year, the development of mobile apps has grown
substantially. The battery power limitation of mobile devices has push developers and …

Context: Software performance is crucial for ensuring the quality of software products. As
one of the non‐functional requirements, the few efforts devoted to software performance …

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 …

Leafactor is a tool to automatically improve the energy consumption of Android apps. It does
so by refactoring the source code to follow a set of patterns known to be energy efficient. The …

The ever-growing popularity of mobile phones has brought additional challenges to the
software development lifecycle. Mobile applications (apps, for short) ought to provide the …

The number of mobile devices sold worldwide has exponentially increased in recent years,
surpassing that of personal computers in 2011. Such devices daily download and run …