Conference Papers (Computing Science)

2012

Hindle, Abram

Power consumption is becoming more and more important with the increased popularity of smart-phones, tablets and laptops. The threat of reducing a customer's battery-life now hangs over the software developer who asks, “will this next change be the one that causes my software to drain a...

2014

Rasmussen, K., Wilson, A., Hindle, Abram

Extending battery life on mobile devices has become an important topic recently due to the increasing frequency of smartphone adoption. A primary component of smart phone energy consumption is the apps that run on these devices. Many apps have embedded advertising and web browser apps will show...

2012

Hindle, Abram

Power consumption is increasingly becoming a concern for not only electrical engineers, but for software engineers as well, due to the increasing popularity of new power-limited contexts such as mobile-computing, smart-phones and cloud-computing. Software changes can alter software power...

2016

Hindle, Abram

Computer Science often seems distant from itsnatural science cousins, especially software engineering whichfeels closer to sociology and psychology than to physics. Physicalmeasurements are often rare in software engineering, except in afew niches. One such important niche is that of software...

2015

Aggarwal, K., Hindle, Abram, Stroulia, E.

Change-impact analysis, namely “identifying the potential consequences of a change” is an important and well studied problem in software evolution. Any change may potentially affect an application's behaviour, performance, and energy consumption profile. Our previous work demonstrated that...

2019

Chowdhury, S.A., Hindle, Abram, Kazman, R., Shuto, T., Matsui, K., Kamei, Y.

Energy consumption is a concern in the data-center and at the edge, on mobile devices such as smartphones. Software that consumes too much energy threatens the utility of the end-user's mobile device. Energy consumption is fundamentally a systemic kind of performance and hence it should be...

2014

Hindle, Abram, Wilson, A., Rasmussen, K., Barlow, E.J., Campbell, J., Romansky, S.

Green Mining is a field of MSR that studies software energy consumption and relies on software performance data. Unfortunately there is a severe lack of publicly available software power use performance data. This means that green mining researchers must generate this data themselves by writing...

2016

Chowdhury, S., Hindle, Abram

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 developers, the measurement of software energy consumption is expensive in terms of hardware and difficult in terms...

2016

Hindle, Abram

NIMEs typically focus on novelty but the cost of novelty is often to ignore other non-functional requirements and concerns such as usability or security. Digital security has probably not been a concern for performers due to the duration of their performances and lack of disrespectful hackers,...

2015

Polato, I., Barbosa, D., Hindle, Abram, Kon, F.

Data centers are notorious energy consumers. In fact, studies have shown that for every $1 spent on hardware in the datacenter, $0.50 is spent on powering this hardware over its lifetime. Data centers host real or virtual (i.e., cloud) clusters that often execute large compute jobs using...