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publications
Specification-Driven Code Generation for Inter-parameter Dependencies in Web APIs
Authors: Saman Barakat, Enrique Barba Roque, Ana Belén Sánchez, Sergio Segura
Published in Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2022 Workshops, 2022
Automatic code generation for APIs considering inter-parameter dependencies.
Recommended citation: Barakat, S., Barba-Roque, E., Sánchez, A.B., Segura, S. (2022). "Secification-Driven Code Generation for Inter-parameter Dependencies in Web APIs." Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2022 Workshops.
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Unveiling the Energy Vampires: A Methodology for Debugging Software Energy Consumption
🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper AwardAuthors: Enrique Barba Roque, Luis Cruz, Thomas Durieux
Published in International Conference on Software Engineering, Ottawa, Canada, 2025
Energy debugging methodology for identifying and isolating energy consumption hotspots in software systems, with Alpine consuming up to 20.2% more power than Ubuntu in certain operations.
Energy Aware Development of Neuromorphic Implantables: From Metrics to Action
Authors: Enrique Barba Roque, Luis Cruz
Published in ICT for Sustainability Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2025
Literature review of energy metrics for neuromorphic computing and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), identifying open challenges and research avenues with respect to fidelity and actionability of metrics
Green AI by Default: Energy Reduction Techniques for LLMs in SE
Authors: Enrique Barba Roque
Published in International Conference on Software Engineering - Doctoral Symposium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026
Extended abstract for Green AI research, identifying open challenges and mapping out a research plan to improve metrics and optimization methods for LLMs.
FLOPs vs Real Work: The Importance of Replication in AI Efficiency Assessment
Authors: Enrique Barba Roque, Luis Cruz
Published in International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 2026, Glasgow, Scotland, 2026
Replication study for a execution time estimation for CNNs. We do not manage to completely replicate the original study, due to the impact of newer GPU hardware and limited replication package
Beyond FLOPs: Energy-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Sustainable LLMs on Code-Related Task
Authors: Enrique Barba Roque, Luis Cruz, Annibale Panichella
Published in International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2026, Munich, Germany, 2026
Energy-aware knowledge distillation can reduce LLM inference energy by up to 90% and memory usage by 86%, while showing that FLOPs alone is not a reliable proxy for energy consumption in software engineering tasks.
talks
Finding Energy Inefficiencies in shared libraries with Docker
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I share my work on my Master Thesis on finding energy inefficiencies in different Linux distributions and libc implementations with the KDE Eco community, focused on improving energy efficiency of software. Minutes, Slides
Reliable cross-platform energy measurements with EnergiBridge
Authors: Carolin Brandt, Enrique Barba Roque
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Find our slides for this tutorial here