Last week I gave a talk at the LAC 2017 congres about how me and my research group are working on how to improve the automatic reconstruction of microservice-based architectures. Having a clear (and automatic) understanding of the software architecture of a microservice-based system is specially interesting and useful when planning new features of the …

Yesterday I gave a guest lecture at TUDelft about the experiments on mobile apps that we are conducting in our Green Lab in Amsterdam. Here you can find the slides of the lecture. These are the papers on which the presentation is based: Ivano Malavolta (2016). Web-based hybrid mobile apps: state of the practice and …

Just back from the AmsterdamJS conference, the first conference on javaScript based in Amsterdam. There I gave a talk on the energy efficiency of progressive web apps (PWAs). PWAs are a new technology introduced by Google that aims at bridging this gap, with a set of APIs known as service workers at its core. In …

Just finished my keynote at the Mobile! workshop, co-located with the SPLASH 2016 conference. Here you can download the companion paper of the talk: https://www.ivanomalavolta.com/files/papers/splash_2016_workshop_keynote.pdf, and here you can find the slides: Here is the abstract of the talk. This year a billion smartphones will be sold worldwide, with people relying more and more on …

Last month I presented our approach for automatically generating mobile navigation design models from web-based analytics data. The approach mines usage data of a website, builds a model of the web usage patterns coming from both web and mobile-specific usage sessions, transforms it into a mobile-oriented navigation tree, and generates a mobile-oriented navigation model, usable …

Today I gave an answer to all those questions in a tutorial at the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft 2016). Here you can find a two-pages paper summarizing the tutorial: https://www.ivanomalavolta.com/files/papers/mobilesoft_2016_tutorial.pdf In the following you can find the slides of my talk. Here you can find our papers telling …

I just finished to present the results of our latest works on software architecture languages. The presentation has been done at the 3rd workshop on Architecture Centric Virtual Integration (ACVI). Here is the abstract of the talk. “If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture”. With this reflection, Brian Foote and Joseph Yode …

Last Thursday I presented our generic approach for automatically bridging UML profiles into MOF metamodels. Here you can download the paper: https://www.ivanomalavolta.com/files/papers/SEAA_2015.pdf , and here you can find the slides of the presentation: The paper has been presented at SEAA 2015. SEAA 2015 is the 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, and …

Today I just completed a simple good looking off canvas menu, specifically developed for mobile devices. The menu has been developed for leveraging CSS3 features as much as possible, and it may be imported into already existing SASS stylesheets. A fully functioning demo can be accessed here (better to access it via a mobile device …

Yesterday I presented our last study on hybrid mobile Apps in the Google Play Store. The paper has been presented at Mobile Services 2015. Mobile Services 2015 is the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services, and it has been held in June 27 – July 2, 2015, New York, USA. Here you can download …