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 …

Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many
areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that …

Almost every complex software system today is configurable. While configurability has many
benefits, it challenges performance prediction, optimization, and debugging. Often, the …

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 …

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are highly configurable systems. This raises the challenge to
find optimal performing configurations for an anticipated workload. As SPL configuration …

A key challenge of the development and maintenanceof configurable systems is to predict
the performance ofindividual system variants based on the features selected. It isusually …

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

Configurable software systems provide a multitude of configuration options to adjust and
optimize their functional and non-functional properties. For instance, to find the fastest …

Performance bugs are programming errors that slow down program execution. While
existing techniques can detect various types of performance bugs, a crucial and practical …

Many software systems today are configurable, offering customization of functionality by
feature selection. Understanding how performance varies in terms of feature selection is key …