Web application providers have been migrating their applications to cloud data centers,
attracted by the emerging cloud computing paradigm. One of the appealing features of the …

Performance is arguably the most crucial attribute that reflects the quality of a configurable
software system. However, given the increasing scale and complexity of modern software …

Microservices based architectures are increasingly widespread in the cloud software
industry. Still, there is a shortage of auto-scaling methods designed to leverage the unique …

With modern requirements, there is an increasing tendency of considering multiple
objectives/criteria simultaneously in many Software Engineering (SE) scenarios. Such a …

A microservice-based application is composed of a set of small services that run within their
own processes and communicate with a lightweight mechanism. Processing the …

Learning and predicting the performance of given software configurations are of high
importance to many software engineering activities. While configurable software systems will …

Piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators are at the forefront of converting ambient
mechanical energy into electricity. These devices have experienced significant …

Nowadays, by integrating the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) with the mobile edge
cloud computing (MEC) technology, mobile service provider (MSP) can efficiently handle the …

Autoscaling system can reconfigure cloud-based services and applications, through various
configurations of cloud software and provisions of hardware resources, to adapt to the …

In presence of multiple objectives to be optimized in Search-Based Software Engineering
(SBSE), Pareto search has been commonly adopted. It searches for a good approximation of …