Most modern software systems (operating systems like Linux or Android, Web browsers like
Firefox or Chrome, video encoders like ffmpeg, x264 or VLC, mobile and cloud applications …

Finding good configurations of a software system is often challenging since the number of
configuration options can be large. Software engineers often make poor choices about …

Modern software systems provide many configuration options which significantly influence
their non-functional properties. To understand and predict the effect of configuration options …

Finding the optimally performing configuration of a software system for a given setting is
often challenging. Recent approaches address this challenge by learning performance …

Many software systems provide users with a set of configuration options and different
configurations may lead to different runtime performance of the system. As the combination …

With the advent of big data applications, which tend to have longer execution time, choosing
the right cloud VM has significant performance and economic implications. For example, in …

Most software systems provide options that allow users to tailor the system in terms of
functionality and qualities. The increased flexibility raises challenges for understanding the …

Numerous software systems are highly configurable and provide a myriad of configuration
options that users can tune to fit their functional and performance requirements (eg …

Modern cyber-physical systems (eg, robotics systems) are typically composed of physical
and software components, the characteristics of which are likely to change over time …

Modern computer systems are highly configurable, with the total variability space sometimes
larger than the number of atoms in the universe. Understanding and reasoning about the …