Green Software Lab members awarded new project funded by FLAD/NSF entitled “Software Repositories for Green Computing”. This project is in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Department of Informatics with Prof. Cristina Videira Lopes..
New Paper Accepted @ Informatics 2015
GreenDroid: A Tool for Analysing Energy Consumption in the Android Ecosystem – Marco Couto, Jácome Cunha, João Paulo Fernandes, Rui Pereira, João Saraiva
This paper presents GreenDroid, a tool for monitoring and analyzing power consumption for the Android ecosystem. This tool instruments the source code of a giving Android application and is able to estimate the power consumed when running it. Moreover, it uses advanced classification algorithms to detect abnormal power consumption and to relate them to fragments in the source code. A set of graphical results are produced that help software developers to identify abnormal power consumption in their source code.
In International Scientific Conference on Informatics [PDF] [Bib]
GSL team awarded Research Project
The team was awarded research funding for 3 years by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) with the project title: “Green Software Lab: Green Computing as an Engineering Discipline”!
PhD Grant awarded to Rui Pereira
A 3-year PhD grant funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) was awarded to Rui Pereira for his PhD thesis titled “Analyzing and Optimizing Abnormal Energy Consumption in Software Systems”!
GSL industrial pitch @ IT4Energy (April 28th)
Green Software Lab @ Ericson – Budapest
A member of the Green Software Lab will be working on energy analysis for Erlang at Ericsson Labs in Budapest on May 2015.
GSL talk @ National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
title: Detecting Energy Leaks in Source Code
GSL talk @ Universidade Federal do Ceára, Fortaleza, Brazil
title: Detecting Anomalous Energy Consumption in Android Applications
GSL talk @ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
New Paper Accepted @ SBLP 14
Detecting Anomalous Energy Consumption in Android Applications – Marco Couto, Tiago Carção, Jácome Cunha, João Paulo Fernandes, João Saraiva
The use of powerful mobile devices, like smartphones, tablets and laptops, are changing the way programmers develop software. 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. This paper presents a technique and a tool to detect anomalous energy consumption in Android applications, and to relate it directly with the source code of the application. We propose a dynamically calibrated model for energy consumption for the Android ecosystem, and that supports different devices. The model is then used as an API to monitor the application execution: first, we instrument the application source code so that we can relate energy consumption to the application source code; second, we use a statistical approach, based on fault-localization techniques, to localize abnormal energy consumption in the source code.
Programming Languages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014 [PDF] [Presentation] [Bib]