Innovations in hardware architecture, such as hyper-threading or multicore processors,
make parallel computing resources available for computer systems in different areas …

Cloud-native applications constitute a recent trend for designing large-scale software
systems. However, even though several cloud-native tools and patterns have emerged to …

Understanding documents with rich layouts plays a vital role in digitization and hyper-
automation but remains a challenging topic in the NLP research community. Additionally, the …

Modern software systems often exhibit numerous configuration options to tailor them to user
requirements, including the system's performance behavior. Performance models derived …

Background Indirect methods leverage real-world data for the estimation of reference
intervals. These constitute an active field of research, and several methods have been …

Abstract Evaluation is a crucial aspect of human existence and plays a vital role in each
field. However, it is often approached in an empirical and ad-hoc manner, lacking …

Context: The combination of distributed stream processing with microservice architectures is
an emerging pattern for building data-intensive software systems. In such systems, stream …

Container orchestration frameworks play a critical role in modern cloud computing
paradigms such as cloud-native or serverless computing. They significantly impact the …

In empirical software engineering, benchmarks can be used for comparing different
methods, techniques and tools. However, the recent ACM SIGSOFT Empirical Standards for …

A core selling point of application containers is their fast start times compared to other
virtualization approaches like virtual machines. Predictable and fast container start times are …