Energy is a critical resource for apps that run on mobile devices. Among all operations,
making HTTP requests is one of the most energy consuming. Previous studies have shown …

We present an object-based co-segmentation method that takes advantage of depth data
and is able to correctly handle noisy images in which the common foreground object is …

Android applications are becoming increasingly powerful in recent years. While their
functionality is still of paramount importance to users, the energy efficiency of these …

Climate change challenges require a notable decrease in worldwide greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions across technology sectors. Digital technologies, especially video …

Over the last years, streaming of multimedia content has become more prominent than ever.
To meet increasing user requirements, the concept of HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) has …

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

Developers strive to build feature-filled apps that are responsive and consume as few
resources as possible. Most of these apps make use of local databases to store and access …

The advent of Internet of Things is now part of our reality. Increasing amounts of data are
being continuously generated and monitored through widespread sensing technologies …

Mobile web traffic has now surpassed the desktop web traffic and has become the primary
means for service providers to reach out to the billions of end users. Due to this trend …

HTTP/2 is the next-generation Web protocol based on Google's SPDY protocol, and
attempts to solve the shortcomings and inflexibilities of HTTP/1. x. As smartphones become …