SHF:SMALL:Enabling and Supporting the Development of Energy-Efficient Software

S的计算环境担心电池寿命、散热、风扇噪音，以及总体上潜在的高能源成本。本项目介绍了软件工程师如何在考虑其能源使用的情况下设计和实现软件。经验研究表明，软件工程师目前并不具备生产节能软件所需的知识。他们缺乏做出影响其应用程序能耗的决策所需的信息，并且他们对这些影响的根本原因做出了错误的假设。该项目将在软件工程师S级别解决这些需求，使实践者能够进一步改进其应用程序的能源使用，而不是在较低的系统级别上所能实现的。该项目将通过开发新颖的自动分析来支持有关能源使用的决策，并将增加对在软件工程水平上所做决策的能源使用影响的了解，从而促进最先进的技术水平。该项目将为软件工程师开发工具，以发现和应用减少其应用程序能耗的修改。这项研究是由与能源消耗相关的工程决策的实证研究推动的。在该项目中开发的工具和实验基础设施将被公开发布，这将让研究人员和实践者在该项目的基础上再接再厉？S成果。

Inherent in today?s computing environments are concerns about battery life, heat creation, fan noise, and overall potentially high energy costs. This project addresses how software engineers can design and implement software with consideration for its energy usage. Empirical studies have shown that software engineers currently do not have the knowledge they need to produce energy-efficient software. They lack the information they need to make decisions affecting energy consumption of their applications, and they make incorrect assumptions about the underlying causes of those impacts. This project will address these needs at the software engineer?s level, enabling practitioners to further improve the energy usage of their applications beyond what can be achieved at the lower system levels. This project will contribute to the state of the art by developing novel, automatic analyses to support decision-making with regard to energy usage and will also increase understanding of the energy usage impacts of decisions made at the software engineering level. The project will develop tools for software engineers to discover and apply modifications that reduce the energy usage of their applications. The research is driven by empirical studies that related engineering decisions to energy consumption. The tools and experimental infrastructure developed within the project will be publicly released, which will let researchers and practitioners build on the project?s results.