Modern distributed applications offer complex performance behavior and many degrees of
freedom regarding deployment and configuration. Researchers employ various methods of …

Performance prediction and measurement approaches for component-based software
systems help software architects to evaluate their systems based on component …

The microservices architectural style is rising fast, and many companies use this style to
structure their systems. A big challenge in designing this architecture is to find an …

Concurrency in object-oriented languages is still waiting for a satisfactory solution. For many
application areas, standard mechanisms like threads and locks are too low level and have …

Ensembles are groups of active entities that collaborate to perform a certain task. Modeling
software systems for ensemble execution is challenging since such applications are highly …

Modern software development is complex as it has to deal with many different and yet
related aspects of applications. In practical software engineering this is now handled by a …

Abstract Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) represent an architectural shift for building
business applications based on loosely-coupled services. In a multi-layered SOA …

Despite the increasing computational power of modern computers, many large, distributed
software systems still suffer from performance problems today. To avoid design-related …

Autonomic computing-that is, the development of software and hardware systems featuring a
certain degree of self-awareness and self-adaptability-is a field with many application areas …

Innovative software engineering methodologies, concepts and tools which focus on
supporting the ongoing evolution of complex software, in particular regarding its continuous …