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Publicações por Marco Linhares Couto

2017

Towards a Green Ranking for Programming Languages

Autores
Couto, M; Pereira, R; Ribeiro, F; Rua, R; Saraiva, J;

Publicação
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (SBLP 2017)

Abstract
While in the past the primary goal to optimize software was the run time optimization, nowadays there is a growing awareness of the need to reduce energy consumption. Additionally, a growing number of developers wish to become more energy-aware when programming and feel a lack of tools and the knowledge to do so. In this paper we define a ranking of energy efficiency in programming languages. We consider a set of computing problems implemented in ten well-known programming languages, and monitored the energy consumed when executing each language. Our preliminary results show that although the fastest languages tend to be the lowest consuming ones, there are other interesting cases where slower languages are more energy efficient than faster ones.

2017

Helping Programmers Improve the Energy Efficiency of Source Code

Autores
Pereira, R; Carcao, T; Couto, M; Cunha, J; Fernandes, JP; Saraiva, J;

Publicação
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 IEEE/ACM 39TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPANION (ICSE-C 2017)

Abstract
This paper briefly proposes a technique to detect energy inefficient fragments in the source code of a software system. Test cases are executed to obtain energy consumption measurements, and a statistical method, based on spectrum-based fault localization, is introduced to relate energy consumption to the system's source code. The result of our technique is an energy ranking of source code fragments pointing developers to possible energy leaks in their code.

2018

Energyware Analysis

Autores
Pereira, R; Couto, M; Ribeiro, F; Rua, R; Saraiva, J;

Publicação
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Software Quality Analysis, Monitoring, Improvement, and Applications, SQAMIA 2018, Novi Sad, Serbia, August 27-30, 2018.

Abstract
This documents introduces \Energyware" as a software engineering discipline aiming at defining, analyzing and optimizing the energy consumption by software systems. In this paper we present energyware analysis in the context of programming languages, software data structures and program's source code. For each of these areas we describe the research work done in the context of the Green Software Laboratory at Minho University: we describe energyaware techniques, tools, libraries, and repositories. © 2018 by the paper's authors.

2019

Towards using Memoization for Saving Energy in Android

Autores
Rua, R; Couto, M; Pinto, A; Cunha, J; Saraiva, J;

Publicação
Proceedings of the XXII Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering, CIbSE 2019, La Habana, Cuba, April 22-26, 2019.

Abstract
Over the last few years, the interest in the analysis of the energy consumption of Android applications has been increasing significantly. Indeed, there are a considerable number of studies which aim at analyzing the energy consumption in the Android ecosystem, such as measuring/estimating the energy consumed by an application or block of code, or even detecting energy expensive coding patterns or APIs. In this paper, we present an initial study of the impact of memoization in the energy consumption of Android applications. We compare implementations of 18 methods from different applications, with and without using memoization, and measure the energy consumption of both of them. The results show that using memoization can be a good approach for saving energy, since 13 of those methods decreased their energy consumption.

2019

GreenSource: a large-scale collection of Android code, tests and energy metrics

Autores
Rua, R; Couto, M; Saraiva, J;

Publicação
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2019, 26-27 May 2019, Montreal, Canada.

Abstract
This paper presents the GreenSource infrastructure: a large body of open source code, executable Android applications, and curated dataset containing energy code metrics. The dataset contains energy metrics obtained by both static analysing the applications' source code and by executing them with available test inputs. To automate the execution of the applications we developed the AnaDroid tool which instruments its code, compiles and executes it with test inputs in any Android device, while collecting energy metrics. GreenSource includes all Android applications included in the MUSE Java source code repository, while AnaDroid implements all Android's energy greedy features described in the literature, GreenSource aims at characterizing energy consumption in the Android ecosystem, providing both Android developers and researchers a setting to reason about energy efficient Android software development. © 2019 IEEE.

2019

GreenHub farmer: real-world data for Android energy mining

Autores
Matalonga, H; Cabral, B; Castor, F; Couto, M; Pereira, R; de Sousa, SM; Fernandes, JP;

Publicação
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2019, 26-27 May 2019, Montreal, Canada.

Abstract
As mobile devices are supporting more and more of our daily activities, it is vital to widen their battery up-time as much as possible. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, 9/10 users suffer from low battery anxiety. The goal of our work is to understand how Android usage, apps, operating systems, hardware and user habits influence battery lifespan. Our strategy is to collect anonymous raw data from devices all over the world, through a mobile app, build and analyze a large-scale dataset containing real-world, day-to-day data, representative of user practices. So far, the dataset we collected includes 12 million+ (anonymous) data samples, across 900+ device brands and 5.000+ models. And, it keeps growing. The data we collect, which is publicly available and by different channels, is sufficiently heterogeneous for supporting studies with a wide range of focuses and research goals, thus opening the opportunity to inform and reshape user habits, and even influence the development of both hardware and software for mobile devices. © 2019 IEEE.

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