Context: Software systems are increasingly required to operate in an open world,
characterized by continuous changes in the environment and in the prescribed …

Software ecosystems consist of multiple software projects, often interrelated by means of
dependency relations. When one project undergoes changes, other projects may decide to …

Networks-on-chip (NoCs) can improve the communication bandwidth and power efficiency
of multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoC). However, traditional metallic interconnects …

Context: A growing number of researchers are investigating how Mining Software
Repositories (MSR) approaches can support software architecture activities, such as …

Search-based software engineering has been extensively applied to the problem of finding
improved modular structures that maximize cohesion and minimize coupling. However …

As a software system evolves, its architecture tends to decay, leading to the occurrence of
architectural elements that become resistant to maintenance or prone to defects. To address …

Architectural conformance checking is the process of verifying whether a given software
implementation conforms to the rules and decisions in an architectural model. Different …

It has been lately established that a major success or failure factor of an OSS project is
whether or not it involves a commercial company, or more extremely, when a project is …

Although architecture instability has been studied and measured using a variety of metrics, a
deeper analysis of which project parts are less stable and how such instability varies over …

Prediction models of software change requests are useful for supporting rational and timely
resource allocation to the evolution process. In this paper we use a time series forecasting …