Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel
business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By …

The advent of Blockchain and smart contracts is empowering many technologies and
systems to automate commerce and facilitate the exchange, tracking and the provision of …

Various information retrieval (IR) based techniques have been proposed recently to locate
bugs automatically at the file level. However, their usefulness is often compromised by the …

Abstract Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged as a prospective computing paradigm
to provide pervasive computing and storage services for mobile and big data applications. In …

Software energy profilers are the tools to measure the energy consumption of mobile
devices, applications running on those devices, and various hardware components. They …

We aim to detect and diagnose energy anomalies, abnormally heavy battery use. This paper
describes a collaborative black-box method, and an implementation called Carat, for …

Touchscreen-based mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are used daily by
billions of people for productivity and entertainment. This paper uncovers a new security …

Mobile apps bring unprecedented levels of convenience, yet they are often buggy, and their
bugs offset the convenience the apps bring. A key reason for buggy apps is that they must …

Smartphone applications' energy efficiency is vital, but many Android applications suffer
from serious energy inefficiency problems. Locating these problems is labor-intensive and …

Software piracy is an important concern for application developers. Such concerns are
especially relevant in mobile application development, where piracy rates can approach …