With an ever-increasing number of applications available for mobile devices, battery life is becoming a critical factor in user satisfaction. This practical guide provides you with the key measurement, modeling, and analytical tools needed to optimize battery life by developing energy-aware and energy-efficient systems and applications. As well as the necessary theoretical background and results of the field, this hands-on book also provides real-world examples, practical guidance on assessing and optimizing energy consumption, and details of prototypes and possible future trends. Uniquely, you will learn about energy optimization of both hardware and software in one book, enabling you to get the most from the available battery power. Covering experimental system design and implementation, the book supports assignment-based courses with a laboratory component, making it an ideal textbook for graduate students. It is also a perfect guidebook for software engineers and systems architects working in industry.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conferences on Security Technology, SecTech 2012, on Control and Automation, CA 2012, and CES-CUBE 2012, the International Conference on Circuits, Control, Communication, Electricity, Electronics, Energy, System, Signal and Simulation; all held in conjunction with GST 2012 on Jeju Island, Korea, in November/December 2012. The papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and focus on the various aspects of security technology, and control and automation, and circuits, control, communication, electricity, electronics, energy, system, signal and simulation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on attacks, attack detection, binary analysis and mobile malware protection, social networks and large-scale attacks, Web and mobile security, and provenance and data sharing.

This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in the field of environmental informatics. It addresses a wide range of cross-cutting activities, such as efficient computing, virtual reality, disruption management, big data, open science and the internet of things, and showcases how these green information & communication technologies (ICT) can be used to effectively address environmental and societal challenges. Presenting a selection of extended contributions to the 32nd edition of the International Conference EnviroInfo 2018, at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching near Munich, it is essential reading for anyone looking to expand their expertise in the area.

This book includes recent research on Data Science, IoT, Smart Cities and Smart Energy, Health Informatics, and Network Security. The International Conference on Advances in Computing Research (ACR’23) brings together a diverse group of researchers from all over the world with the intent of fostering collaboration and dissemination of the advances in computing technologies. The conference is aptly segmented into six tracks to promote a birds-of-the-same-feather congregation and maximize participation. The first track covers computational intelligence, which include, among others, research topics on artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and management, application and theory of neural systems, fuzzy and expert systems, and genetic algorithms. The second track focuses on cybersecurity engineering. It includes pertinent topics such as incident response, hardware and network security, digital biometrics and forensics technologies, and cybersecurity metrics and assessment. Further, it features emerging security technologies and high-tech systems security. The third track includes studies on data analytics. It covers topics such as data management, statistical and deep analytics, semantics and time series analytics, and a multitude of important applications of data analytics in areas such as engineering, health care, business, and manufacturing. The fourth track on network and communications covers a wide range of topics in both areas including protocols and operations, ubiquitous networks, ad hoc and sensor networks, cellular systems, virtual and augmented reality streaming, information centric networks, and the emerging areas in connected and autonomous vehicle communications. Lastly, the final track on cloud and mobile computing includes areas of interest in cloud computing such as infrastructure, service, management and operations, architecture, and interoperability and federation. This track also includes important topics in mobile computing such as services and applications, communication architectures, positioning and tracking technologies, the general applications of mobile computing.

This book focuses on software sustainability, regarded in terms of how software is or can be developed while taking into consideration environmental, social, and economic dimensions. The sixteen chapters cover various related issues ranging from technical aspects like energy-efficient programming techniques, formal proposals related to energy efficiency measurement, patterns to build energy-efficient software, the role of developers on energy efficient software systems and tools for detecting and refactoring code smells/energy bugs; to human aspects like its impact on software sustainability or the adaptation of ACM/IEEE guidelines for student and professional education and; and an economics-driven architectural evaluation for sustainability. Also aspects as the elements of governance and management that organizations should consider when implementing, assessing and improving Green IT or the relationship between software sustainability and the Corporate Social Responsibility of software companies are included. The chapters are complemented by usage scenarios and experience reports on several domains as cloud applications, agile development or e-Health, among others. As a whole, the chapters provide a complete overview of the various issues related to sustainable software development. The target readership for this book includes CxOs, (e.g. Chief Information Officers, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Technology Officers, etc.) software developers, software managers, auditors, business owners, and quality professionals. It is also intended for students of software engineering and information systems, and software researchers who want to know the state of the art regarding software sustainability.