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Learning and predicting the performance of given software configurations are of high importance to many software engineering activities. While configurable software systems will almost certainly face diverse running environments (e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jingzhi Gong , Tao Chen

Software systems usually provide numerous configuration options that can affect performance metrics such as execution time, memory usage, binary size, or bitrate. On the one hand, making informed decisions is challenging and requires domain…

In many scenarios, configurators support the configuration of a solution that satisfies the preferences of a single user. The concept of \emph{multi-configuration} is based on the idea of configuring a set of configurations. Such a…

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The performance of an algorithm often critically depends on its parameter configuration. While a variety of automated algorithm configuration methods have been proposed to relieve users from the tedious and error-prone task of manually…

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Runtime misconfiguration can lead to software performance degradation and even cause failure. Developers typically perform sanity checks during the configuration parsing stage to prevent invalid parameter values. However, we discovered that…

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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, modeling and predicting how various configurations can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jingzhi Gong , Tao Chen

Modern distributed storage systems come with aplethora of configurable parameters that controlmodule behavior and affect system performance. Default settings provided by developers are often suboptimal for specific user cases. Tuning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Wenhao Lyu , Youyou Lu , Jiwu Shu , Wei Zhao

The large number of possible configurations of modern software-based systems, combined with the large number of possible environmental situations of such systems, prohibits enumerating all adaptation options at design time and necessitates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Erik M. Fredericks , Ilias Gerostathopoulos , Christian Krupitzer , Thomas Vogel

Configuration in software systems helps to ensure efficient operation and meet diverse user needs. Yet, some, if not all, configuration options have profound implications for the system's performance. Configuration performance analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Hongyuan Liang , Yue Huang , Tao Chen

Modern software systems are usually highly configurable, providing users with customized functionality through various configuration options. Understanding how system performance varies with different option combinations is important to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jiezhu Cheng , Cuiyun Gao , Zibin Zheng

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, etc.) are highly-configurable. Hundreds of configuration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Juliana Alves Pereira , Hugo Martin , Mathieu Acher , Jean-Marc Jézéquel , Goetz Botterweck , Anthony Ventresque

Computer networks are hard to manage. Given a set of high-level requirements (e.g., reachability, security), operators have to manually figure out the individual configuration of potentially hundreds of devices running complex distributed…

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Robots often need to be reconfigurable$-$to customize, calibrate, or optimize robots operating in varying environments with different hardware). A particular challenge in robotics is the automated and dynamic reconfiguration to load and…

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Product configuration is a successful application of Answer Set Programming (ASP). However, challenges are still open for interactive systems to effectively guide users through the configuration process. The aim of our work is to provide an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Lucia Balážová , Richard Comploi-Taupe , Susana Hahn , Nicolas Rühling , Gottfried Schenner

Modern software systems are built to be used in dynamic environments using configuration capabilities to adapt to changes and external uncertainties. In a self-adaptation context, we are often interested in reasoning about the performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Pooyan Jamshidi , Miguel Velez , Christian Kästner , Norbert Siegmund , Prasad Kawthekar

One of the key advantages of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) is the opportunity to integrate traffic engineering modules able to optimize network configuration according to traffic. Ideally, network should be dynamically reconfigured as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Davide Sanvito , Ilario Filippini , Antonio Capone , Stefano Paris , Jeremie Leguay

The Distributed Messaging Systems (DMSs) used in IoT systems require timely and reliable data dissemination, which can be achieved through configurable parameters. However, the high-dimensional configuration space makes it difficult for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhuangwei Kang , Yogesh D. Barve , Shunxing Bao , Abhishek Dubey , Aniruddha Gokhale

Modern computer systems are highly configurable, with the total variability space sometimes larger than the number of atoms in the universe. Understanding and reasoning about the performance behavior of highly configurable systems, over a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Md Shahriar Iqbal , Rahul Krishna , Mohammad Ali Javidian , Baishakhi Ray , Pooyan Jamshidi

In recent years, configuration problems have drawn tremendous attention because of their increasing prevalence and their big impact on system availability. We believe that many of these problems are attributable to today's configuration…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Tianyin Xu , Vineet Pandey , Scott Klemmer

Software systems often have numerous configuration options that can be adjusted to meet different performance requirements. However, understanding the combined impact of these options on performance is often challenging, especially with…

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