Publications

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2026

• Magnifying Inefficiency: How LLMs Amplify Performance Anti-Patterns in Mobile Development
  Rui Rua, Karim Ali In the 1st Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs) 2026, co-located with the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2026.

• InstruMate: A Systematic Framework for Assessing Android App Repackaging Resilience
  Leandro de Souza Oliveira, Rodrigo Bonifácio, Joanna C. S. Santos, Rui Rua In the 33th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2026

2025

• BuilDroid: A Self-Correcting LLM Agent for Automated Android Builds
  Jaehyeon Kim, Rui Rua, Karim Ali In the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025.

2023

• [Journal] A large-scale empirical study on mobile performance: Energy, Run-time and Memory
  Rui Rua, Rui Pereira, João Saraiva
  In Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

• PyAnaDroid: A fully-customizable execution pipeline for benchmarking Android Applications
  Rui Rua, João Saraiva
  In the 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution

2022

• E-MANAFA: Energy Monitoring and ANAlysis tool For Android
  Rui Rua, João Saraiva
  In the 5th International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis (A-Mobile)

• Energy Efficiency of Web Browsers in the Android Ecosystem
  Nelson Gonçalves, Rui Rua, Jácome Cunha, Rui Pereira, João Saraiva
  In the 2022 Workshop on Resource AWareness of Systems and Society (RAW)

• [Book Chapter] Energy Debt: Foundations, techniques and Tools Marco Couto, Rui Rua, João Saraiva Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - Sustrainable 2023 - Submitted

2021

• [Journal] Ranking Programming Languages by Energy Efficiency
  Rui Pereira, Marco Couto, Francisco Ribeiro, Rui Rua, Jácome Cunha, João Paulo Fernandes, João Saraiva
  In Journal of Science of Computer Programming

2020

• [Book Chapter] Compilers going Green - An empirical evaluation of functional language performance
  José Nuno Macedo, Francisco Ribeiro, Rui Rua, Marco Couto, Jácome Cunha, João P. Fernandes, João Saraiva, Rui Pereira
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - Composability, Comprehensibility, and Correctness (3COWS) - Submitted

• Greenspecting Android Virtual Keyboards
  Rui Rua, Tiago Fraga, Marco Couto, João Saraiva
  In the IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESOFT)

2019

• Towards using Memoization for Saving Energy in Android
  Rui Rua, Marco Couto, Jácome Cunha, João Saraiva
  In the 22nd Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE)

• GreenSource: a large-scale collection of Android code, tests and energy metrics
  Rui Rua, Marco Couto, João Saraiva
  In the 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

2017

• Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How does energy, time, and memory relate?
  Rui Pereira, Marco Couto, Francisco Ribeiro, Rui Rua, Jácome Cunha, João P. Fernandes, João Saraiva In 10th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE’17)

• Towards a green ranking for programming languages
  Marco Couto, Rui Pereira, Francisco Ribeiro, Rui Rua, João Saraiva
  In 21st Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP’17)
  Best Paper Award