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MOBILESoft 2021
Mon 17 - Wed 19 May 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021
Mon 17 May 2021 16:47 - 17:02 at MOBILESoft Room - Empirical Studies and Software Modeling Chair(s): Mattia Fazzini

Prefetching web pages is a well-studied solution to reduce network latency by predicting users’ future actions based on their past behaviors. However, such techniques are largely unexplored on mobile platforms. Today’s privacy regulations make it infeasible to explore prefetching with the usual strategy of amassing large amounts of data over long periods and constructing conventional, “large” prediction models. Our work is based on the observation that this may not be necessary: Given previously reported mobile-device usage trends (e.g., repetitive behaviors in brief bursts), we hypothesized that prefetching should work effectively with “small” models trained on mobile-user requests collected during much shorter time periods. To test this hypothesis, we constructed a framework for automatically assessing prediction models, and used it to conduct an extensive empirical study based on over 15 million HTTP requests collected from nearly 11,500 mobile users during a 24-hour period, resulting in over 7 million models. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of prefetching with small models on mobile platforms, directly motivating future work in this area. We further introduce several strategies for improving prediction models while reducing the model size. Finally, our framework provides the foundation for future explorations of effective prediction models across a range of usage scenarios.

Mon 17 May

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16:30 - 17:30
Empirical Studies and Software ModelingTool Demos and Mobile Apps / Technical Papers at MOBILESoft Room
Chair(s): Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota
16:32
15m
Talk
The Impact of Instant Messaging on the Energy Consumption of Android Devices
Technical Papers
Stylianos Rammos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Mansi Mundra Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Guijing Xu Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Chuyi Tong Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Wojciech Ziółkowski Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pre-print Media Attached
16:47
15m
Research paper
Assessing the Feasibility of Web-Request Prediction Models on Mobile Platforms
Technical Papers
Yixue Zhao University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, Siwei Yin Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Adriana Sejfia University of Southern California, Marcelo Schmitt Laser University of Southern California, USA, Haoyu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California, USA
Pre-print Media Attached
17:02
10m
Talk
GraphifyEvolution - A Modular Approach to Analysing Source Code Histories
Tool Demos and Mobile Apps
Kristiina Rahkema University of Tartu, Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu
Pre-print Media Attached
17:12
20m
Live Q&A
Q&A and Discussion
Technical Papers


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Mon 17 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30 at MOBILESoft Room - Empirical Studies and Software Modeling Chair(s): Mattia Fazzini
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