RADIANCE+: softwaRe behAvior DesIgn And eNergy Consumption assEssment
What is RADIANCE+?
RADIANCE+ (softwaRe behAvior DesIgn And eNergy Consumption assEssment) is a webapp tool that facilitates green software design with a model driven approach. Users can design atomic fragments of software called "profiles". Profiles use the "Behavior Based Consumption Profile (BBCP) Domain-Specific Modeling Language", which is a modeling language that we have created to mimic the evolution of software usage through time (we call this "diachronic software behavior"). Profiles can be later agglomerated in "collections", which can represent full applications or individual components. There are several features in RADIANCE that make it unique.
Model-Driven SE
RADIANCE+ parses the profiles to generate sequence and timing diagrams that guide the user visually. This feature is particularly useful for users who look for a more intuitive way to understand the behavior of their software. Moreover, RADIANCE+ supports parallelism and concurrency in the profiles, which allows users to model complex behaviors in a more realistic way.
Prospective Hardware Consumption Rating
RADIANCE+ uses an algorithm to rate the estimated hardware resource consumption of each of the operations in a profile and labels them using a color and its respective letter. In addition, RADIANCE+ generates an energy report that provides the user with a summary of the good and bad practices in the profile, as well as links to useful sources of information that elaborate on strategies to mitigate the energy consumption of the software.
Hardware Consumption Labeling per Operation
Energy report
Behavioral Load Simulator
The behavioral load simulator uses an engine tailored to interpret the variables of BBCP-supported models, interpreting models into agents. The results obtained after a simulation are the following:
- The evolution of hardware load
- The change in active state of model-based agents over time
- The prospective energy consumption of the software
- Behavioral load metrics i.e.: change in state per minute, dependency calls, average hardware load
UI Customization
RADIANCE+'s UI can be customized to meet the needs of users with different levels of expertise. There is no need to access the code of RADIANCE+ to implement such customizations, as they can be performed in the tool itself.
Main related publications
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Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Sébastien Laborie, Yudith
Cardinale, " RADIANCE:
A tool for software behavior design and energy consumption categorization
", Babeș-Bolyai University, (demo paper), 41st Congrès
Annuel INFORSID (INFormatique des ORganisations et Systèmes d'Information et de
Décision), La Rochelle (France), pp. 43-47, May-June 2023.
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Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Yudith Cardinale,
Sébastien
Laborie, Olga Paulina Vara, "Behavior-Based
Consumption Profiles for the Approximation of the Energy Consumption of
Services", Babeș-Bolyai University, 30th International
Conference
on Information Systems Development (ISD 2022), Cluj-Napoca (Romania),
Risoprint,
ISBN 978-973-53-2917-4, 12 pp., August-September, 2022.
- Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Yudith Cardinale,
Sébastien
Laborie, Mauricio Jacobo González,
"Towards
Services Profiling for Energy Management in Service-Oriented
Architectures",
17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST
2021),
SCITEPRESS, ISBN 978-989-758-536-4, ISSN 2184-3252, pp. 209-216, October 2021. Best
student
paper award.
Online conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (DOI: 10.5220/0010718600003058; DOI of the proceedings: 10.5220/0000152700003058)
- Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Yudith Cardinale,
Sébastien
Laborie,
"Towards
an Integrated Full-Stack Green Software Development Methodology",
new
ideas
and vision paper, Universitat Politècnica de València, ISBN 978-1-908358-98-1,
29th International
Conference on
Information Systems Development (ISD 2021), Valencia, Spain, 6 pp.,
September,
2021.
- Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Sébastien Laborie, Yudith
Cardinale,
"RADIANCE: A tool
for
software behavior design and energy consumption categorization",
41st
Congrès Annuel INFORSID (INFormatique des ORganisations et Systèmes d'Information et
de
Décision), La Rochelle (France), demo, pp. 43-47, May-June 2023.
- Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Yudith Cardinale,
Sébastien
Laborie,
"Profilage de
services
pour la gestion de l'énergie dans les architectures orientées
services",
40th Congrès Annuel INFORSID (INFormatique des ORganisations et Systèmes
d'Information
et de
Décision), Dijon (France), papers already published, pp. 59-60, May-June 2022. Type
of
submission: Session internationale (papers published in very good conferences or
journals in
2021).
- Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, Sébastien Laborie, Yudith
Cardinale, Mauricio Jacobo González,
"Modeling
Energy
Consumption in SOA: Requirements and Current Status",
Atelier "Evolution des SI : vers des SI Pervasifs ?" at the 39th Congrès Annuel
INFORSID
(INFormatique des ORganisations et Systèmes d'Information et de Décision), pp.
31-39,
June
2021.
Planned in Dijon (France) but finally reconverted to an online conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Jorge Andrés-Larracoechea, Philippe Roose, Sergio Ilarri, "Fully Charged: Characterizing the Data Requirements of Services and Apps to Optimize the Use of Energy", Actas de la IX Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores del I3A, ISSN 2341-4790, volumen 8, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón, 2 pp., diciembre de 2020.
Poster
Software
- RADIANCE+ - version 1 beta (upcoming!)
- Source code (upcoming!)
- RADIANCE+ previous version - running demo version
- RADIANCE+ usability test
Contributors
Main Contributors
- Jorge Andrés Larracoechea (PhD student)
- Philippe Roose
- Sergio Ilarri
Acknowledgments
- Project PID2020-113037RB-I00 (funded by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033) — Next-gEnerATion dAta Management to foster suitable Behaviors and the resilience of cItizens against modErN ChallEnges (NEAT-AMBIENCE)
- Government of Aragon (COSMOS research group; last group reference: T64_23R; previous group reference: T64_20R)
