Energy is very valuable computational resource especially in mobile computing. Optimizing the energy consumed during the execution of algorithms has significant practical implications. Intuitively, It seems that such abstract energy measure has to be correlated to the time complexity, the space complexity, and the frequency of space (memory) access operations. Communications costs should be accounted for if we consider distributed computing model.

Are there abstract notions of energy (possibly analogous to the action quantity in physics) which could be useful for establishing energy-complexity classes for computational problems?

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