Software product line engineering has proven to empower organizations to develop a
diversity of similar software-intensive systems (applications) at lower cost, in shorter time …

Key frame extraction has been recognized as one of the important research issues in video
information retrieval. Although progress has been made in key frame extraction, the existing …

Service-based systems that are dynamically composed at runtime to provide complex,
adaptive functionality are currently one of the main development paradigms in software …

Source control repositories, bug repositories, archived communications, deployment logs,
and code repositories are examples of software repositories that are commonly available for …

Software reliability engineering is focused on engineering techniques for develo** and
maintaining software systems whose reliability can be quantitatively evaluated. In order to …

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

Future software systems will operate in a highly dynamic world. Systems will need to operate
correctly despite of unespected changes in factors such as environmental conditions, user …

Architecting software systems according to the service-oriented paradigm and designing
runtime self-adaptable systems are two relevant research areas in today's software …

Modern software systems are increasingly requested to be adaptive to changes in the
environment in which they are embedded. Moreover, adaptation often needs to be …

In recent years, the field of Universal Access has made significant progress in consolidating
theoretical approaches, scientific methods and technologies, as well as in exploring new …