So, I am back from London where I attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023). I had many interesting conversations with many other researchers and roboticists around the world, and there is definitely a strong need of pushing further the boundaries of Software Engineering practices and techniques in robotics, ranging from better …

Last week I presented the Network Institute Amsterdam and its related activities at the Aurora Research Conference in Amsterdam. Since May I am co-directing the Network Institute together with Ivar Vermeulen, Associate Professor at the Communication Science Department of the VU. The Network Institute studies the interaction between digital technology and society, or what is …

It is quite a while since I am investigating how Android developers maintain their apps. Yesterday I presented a study about how maintainability issues of Android apps evolve at the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2018). The study uncovers the frequency and evolution of maintainability issues of Android apps. Its results …

Last week I presented a systematic mapping study and a research map about collaborative Model-Driven Engineering at the journal first track of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018). The accompanying extended abstract is available here. The original paper published in the Transactions on Software Engineering journal is available here. Here you can …

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 …