Patricia Lago | VU

Selected scientific publications

You can find a complete list of the publications I have co-authored on Google Scholar, DBLP and the VU Research Portal.

In the following, I'd like to highlight some publications I am especially proud of.

SOFTWARE SUSTAINABILITY FOR ARCHITECTS AND BEYOND

• Lago, P., & Malavolta, I. (2026). "A New Vision on Software Sustainability and Its Engineering," IEEE Software, 43(1), 119–123, doi: 10.1109/MS.2025.3622804. Link|Preprint

• Lago, P., Condori Fernandez, N., Fatima, I., Funke, M., & Malavolta, I. (2025). "The Sustainability Assessment Framework Toolkit: A Decade of Modeling Experience," Software and Systems ModelIng, 24(2), 361–383, doi: 10.1007/s10270-024-01230-9. Link|Preprint 

• Fatima, I., Funke, M., & Lago, P. (2024). "Providing guidance to software practitioners: A framework for creating KPIs," IEEE Software, 42(4), 68–78, doi: 10.1109/ms.2024.3456446. Link|Preprint

SUSTAINABILITY IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION and TRAINING

• Moreira, A., Lago, P., Heldal, R., Betz, S., Brooks, I., Capilla, R., Coroamă, V. C., Duboc, L., Fernandes, J. P., Leifler, O., Nguyen, N.-T., Oyedeji, S., Penzenstadler, B., Peters, A.-K., Porras, J., & Venters, C.C. (2025). "A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 34(5), 1–27. doi: 10.1145/3708526. Link (open access). Presented as Journal First at ICSE 2026.

• Peters, A.-K., Capilla, R., Coroamă, V. C., Heldal, R., Lago, P., Leifler, O., Moreira, A., Fernandes, J. P., Penzenstadler, B., Porras, J., & Venters, C. C. (2024). "Sustainability in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review," ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 24(1), 1–53, doi:10.1145/3639060. Link (open access)

• Heldal, R., Nguyen, N.-T., Moreira, A., Lago, P., Duboc, L., Betz, S., Coroamă, V. C., Penzenstadler, B., Porras, J., Capilla, R., Brooks, I., Oyedeji, S., & Venters, C. C. (2024). "Sustainability competencies and skills in software engineering: An industry perspective," Journal of Systems and Software, 211(111978), 111978. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2024.111978. Link (open access)

• Malavolta, I., Stoico, V., & Lago, P. (2024). "Ten years of teaching empirical software engineering in the context of energy-efficient software," In Handbook on Teaching Empirical Software Engineering (pp. 209–253). Springer Nature, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-71769-7_8. Link|Preprint

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR AI

• F. Amou Najafabadi, J. Bogner, I. Gerostathopoulos, and P. Lago, "An architectural perspective on MLOps: Structures, processes, tools, and stakeholders," Information and Software Technology, p. 108029, Jan. 2026, doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2026.108029. Link (open access)

• H. Järvenpää, P. Lago, J. Bogner, G. Lewis, H. Muccini, and I. Ozkaya, "A Synthesis of Green Architectural Tactics for ML-Enabled Systems," in Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE SEIS), Lisbon, Portugal: ACM, Apr. 2024, pp. 130-141. doi: 10.1145/3639475.3640111. Link (open access)