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Patricia Lago is Professor of Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she established the Software and Sustainability (S2) research group in the Computer Science Department. Her research is in software architecture, software and service design, software quality assessment and software sustainability.
She is the director of the VU Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC).
She has been the director of the Master Information Sciences, initiator of the Computer Science Master Track in Software Engineering and Green IT, and co-founder of the Green Lab, a place where researchers, students and companies collaborate to measure the energy- and sustainability footprint of software solutions and the impact on software quality.
She served in the management team of IPN (ICT-research Platform Netherlands), and a member of VERSEN, the Dutch National Association for Software Engineering.
She is a member of the Steering Committees of conference series IEEE ICSA, ECSA, and ICT4S; member of the IFIP 2.10 Working group on Software Architecture, the IFIP 2.14 Working group on Services-based Systems, 'Het Groene Brein', and signatary and member of the Dutch Coalition Sustainable Digitalization (NCDD).
Research
Her passion in research is to create software engineering knowledge that makes software better, smarter, and more sustainable.
She is specialized in architecture design decision making and quality assessment, with a special focus on software innovation, sustainable software, and software for sustainability.
Teaching
Teaching courses:
- Service Oriented Design (Master CS)
- Digitalization and Sustainability (Master IS and CS)
- Fair Digital Design (Master IS)
Coordinator of courses:
- Literature Study (Master CS)
- Digital Architecture (former name: Software Architecture)
Ancillary activities
- ElsevierJournal of Systems and Software | Nvt | Onbekend | 2013-12-16 - present
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Personal information
- Editorial Board Journal of Systems and Software
- Editorial Board ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
- Editorial Board IEEE Software Magazine
User created Keywords
- software architecture
- sustainability
- architecture design decision making
- software quality
- energy-aware software
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Let's Start Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Academic Conferences
Funke, M. & Lago, P., 19 Jul 2022, 2022 International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S): [Proceedings]. Calero, C., Karvonen, A., Somova, E., Fernandes, J. P., Peters, A.-K. & Cunha, J. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 160-171 12 p. (ICT4S; vol. 8).Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Expressing the Adaptation Intent as a Sustainability Goal
Gerostathopoulos, I., Raibulet, C. & Lago, P., 2022, 2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER): [Proceedings]. IEEE Computer Society, p. 36-40 5 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering).Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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The future of sustainable digital infrastructures: A landscape of solutions, adoption factors, impediments, open problems, and scenarios
Verdecchia, R., Lago, P. & de Vries, C., Sept 2022, In: Sustainable Computing : Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM). 35, p. 1-20 20 p., 100767.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Architecture design decision maps for software sustainability
Lago, P., 2019, 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, ICSE-SEIS 2019 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 61-64 4 p. 8797634Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Modeling Context with an Architecture Viewpoint
Bedjeti, A., Lago, P., Lewis, G. A., De Boer, R. D. & Hilliard, R., 2017, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA): [Proceedings]. Gothenburg, Sweden: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., p. 117-120 4 p. 7930207Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Courses
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Innoguard: InnoGuard: Hybrid and Generative Intelligence for Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems
Malavolta, I. (Principal Investigator) & Lago, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/24 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
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Sustainability-aware software architecting for the future cloud
Lago, P. (Principal Investigator), Andrikopoulos, V. (Principal Investigator), Fatima, I. (PhD candidate) & Ahmadisakha, S. (PhD candidate)
1/05/22 → 1/09/26
Project: Research
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uDevOps: uDevOps: Software Quality Assurance for Microservice Development Operations Engineering
Malavolta, I. (Principal Investigator) & Lago, P. (Principal Investigator)
Project: Research
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BUMBLE: Blended Modelling for Enhanced Software and Systems Engineering
Malavolta, I. (Principal Investigator), Lago, P. (Project Researcher) & Aslam, K. (Project Researcher)
1/05/20 → 1/05/23
Project: Research
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Software Quality Assurance for Microservice Development Operations Engineering.
Lago, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/03/20 → 1/03/24
Project: Research
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Power-efficient quality-assuring decision framework
Alizadeh Moghaddam, F. (Speaker), Grosso, P. (Speaker) & Lago, P. (Speaker)
2016Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
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A user perspective on energy profiling tools in HPC environments
Alizadeh Moghaddam, F. (Speaker), Geenen, T. (Speaker), Lago, P. (Speaker) & Grosso, P. (Speaker)
2015Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
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Informatie (Journal)
Bierman, H. (Member of editorial board), Huijbers, P. (Member of editorial board), Lago, P. (Member of editorial board), Millis, K. (Member of editorial board) & Poppe, S. (Member of editorial board)
2011Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
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IEEE Software (Journal)
Lago, P. (Member of editorial board), Avgeriou, P. (Member of editorial board) & Hilliard, R. (Member of editorial board)
2010Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
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Journal of Systems and Software (Journal)
Lago, P. (Reviewer)
1 Jan 2010 → …Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Editorial work › Academic
Prizes / Grants
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Best paper award
Lewis, G. A. (Recipient) & Lago, P. (Recipient), 4 Apr 2016
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
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Best Paper Award
Verdecchia, R. (Recipient) & Lago, P. (Recipient), 11 Jan 2019
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
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Best Paper Award
Verdecchia, R. (Recipient), Lago, P. (Recipient), Kruchten, P. (Recipient) & Malavolta, I. (Recipient), 2022
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
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Distinguished Open Artifact Award
Fatima, I. (Recipient) & Lago, P. (Recipient), 2024
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
Datasets
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Sustainability in Software Engineering
Wolfram, N. (Creator), Lago, P. (Creator) & Osborne, F. (Contributor), GitHub, 17 Dec 2024
https://github.com/S2-group/SustainIT-2017-sustainab-in-SE-rep-pkg
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Replication package Systematic Literature Review of Domain-oriented Specification Techniques
Deckers, R. (Owner) & Lago, P. (Contributor), Software and Sustainability (S2) Research Group, 9 Apr 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6645856, https://zenodo.org/record/6645856#.YsrZ5exBya0
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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How do we Evaluate Self-adaptive Software Systems? [replication package]
Gerostathopoulos, I. (Creator), Vogel, T. (Creator), Weyns, D. (Creator) & Lago, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4622749, https://zenodo.org/record/4622749
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Dataset: Sustainability Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the Software Development Life Cycle
Trinh, E. (Creator), Funke, M. (Creator), Lago, P. (Creator) & Bogner, J. (Creator), Zenodo, 27 Mar 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10887409, https://zenodo.org/records/10887409
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Software Architecture Assessment for Sustainability: A Case Study
Fatima, I. (Creator) & Lago, P. (Contributor), Zenodo, 14 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11655904
Dataset / Software: Dataset