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 …

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 …

Many analyses on configurable software systems are intractable when confronted with
colossal and highly-constrained configuration spaces. These analyses could instead use …

Modern software systems often exhibit numerous configuration options to tailor them to user
requirements, including the system's performance behavior. Performance models derived …

Artificial intelligence has gained considerable momentum in software engineering, but there
are major challenges that make this domain special. We review recent advances, raise …

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

With large scale and complex configurable systems, it is hard for users to choose the right
combination of options (ie, configurations) in order to obtain the wanted trade-off between …

Companies have adopted modern code review as a key technique for continuously
monitoring and improving the quality of software changes. One of the main motivations for …

Challenging domains of the future such as Smart Cities, Cloud Computing, or Industry 4.0
expose highly variable systems with colossal configuration spaces. The automated analysis …

Modern configurable systems provide tremendous opportunities for engineering future
intelligent software systems. A key difficulty thereof is how to effectively self-adapt the …