Nearly every popular programming language comes with one or more package managers.
The software packages distributed by such package managers form large software …

Change introduces conflict into software ecosystems: breaking changes may ripple through
the ecosystem and trigger rework for users of a package, but often developers can invest …

Open source software projects often rely on package management systems that help
projects discover, incorporate, and maintain dependencies on other packages, maintained …

Enabled by a rich ecosystem of Machine Learning (ML) libraries, programming using
learned models, ie, Software-2.0, has gained substantial adoption. However, we do not …

Container-based operation system (OS) level virtualization has been adopted by many edge-
computing platforms. However, for an edge server, inter-container communications, and …

Managing project dependencies is a key maintenance issue in software development.
Developers need to choose an update strategy that allows them to receive important …

Dependency management in modern software development poses many challenges for
developers who wish to stay up to date with the latest features and fixes whilst ensuring …

The PyPI ecosystem has indexed millions of Python libraries to allow developers to
automatically download and install dependencies of their projects based on the specified …

Managing cross-project dependencies is tricky in modern software development. A primary
way to manage dependencies is using dependency configuration files, which brings …

Deep learning (DL) applications, built upon a heterogeneous and complex DL stack (eg,
Nvidia GPU, Linux, CUDA driver, Python runtime, and TensorFlow), are subject to software …