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Features in product lines and highly configurable systems can interact in ways that are contrary to developers' intent. Current methods to identify such unanticipated feature interactions are costly and inadequate. To address this problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Seyedehzahra Khoshmanesh , Tuba Yavuz , Robyn R. Lutz

The understanding of source code in large-scale software systems poses a challenge for developers. The role of expertise in source code becomes critical for identifying developers accountable for substantial changes. However, in the context…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Karolina Milano , Bruno Cafeo

Configuration is a successful application area of Artificial Intelligence. In the majority of the cases, configuration systems focus on configuring one solution (configuration) that satisfies the preferences of a single user or a group of…

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

Highly-configurable software systems can have thousands of interdependent configuration options across different subsystems. In the resulting configuration space, discovering a valid product configuration for some selected options can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Michael Lienhardt , Ferruccio Damiani , Einar Broch Johnsen , Jacopo Mauro

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jingzhi Gong

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used across a wide range of tasks. However, their substantial computational demands raise concerns about the energy efficiency and sustainability of both training and inference. Inference,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Nada Zine , Clément Quinton , Romain Rouvoy

Configuration tuning for large software systems is generally challenging due to the complex configuration space and expensive performance evaluation. Most existing approaches follow a two-phase process, first learning a regression-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Rong Cao , Liang Bao , Chase Wu , Panpan Zhangsun , Yufei Li , Zhe Zhang

Finding good configurations for a software system is often challenging since the number of configuration options can be large. Software engineers often make poor choices about configuration or, even worse, they usually use a sub-optimal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Vivek Nair , Zhe Yu , Tim Menzies , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel

Automatically tuning software configuration for optimizing a single performance attribute (e.g., minimizing latency) is not trivial, due to the nature of the configuration systems (e.g., complex landscape and expensive measurement). To deal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Tao Chen , Miqing Li

Assemblies of modular subsystems are being pressed into service to perform sensing, reasoning, and decision making in high-stakes, time-critical tasks in such areas as transportation, healthcare, and industrial automation. We address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Aditya Modi , Debadeepta Dey , Alekh Agarwal , Adith Swaminathan , Besmira Nushi , Sean Andrist , Eric Horvitz

Machine learning is increasingly permeating radio-based localization services. To keep results credible and comparable, everyday workflows should make rigorous experiment specification and exact repeatability the default, without blocking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Tim Strnad , Blaž Bertalanič , Carolina Fortuna

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Sven Peldszus , Davide Brugali , Daniel Strüber , Patrizio Pelliccione , Thorsten Berger

To use heterogeneous hardware, programmers must have sufficient technical skills to utilize OpenMP, CUDA, and OpenCL. On the basis of this, I have proposed environment-adaptive software that enables automatic conversion, configuration, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yoji Yamato

Accurately predicting faulty software units helps practitioners target faulty units and prioritize their efforts to maintain software quality. Prior studies use machine-learning models to detect faulty software code. We revisit past studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Libo Li , Stefan Lessmann , Bart Baesens

Despite the huge spread and economical importance of configurable software systems, there is unsatisfactory support in utilizing the full potential of these systems with respect to finding performance-optimal configurations. Prior work on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Vivek Nair , Tim Menzies , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel

Many approaches for testing configurable software systems start from the same assumption: it is impossible to test all configurations. This motivated the definition of variability-aware abstractions and sampling techniques to cope with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Axel Halin , Alexandre Nuttinck , Mathieu Acher , Xavier Devroey , Gilles Perrouin , Benoit Baudry

Stakeholders of configurable systems are often interested in knowing how configuration options influence the performance of a system to facilitate, for example, the debugging and optimization processes of these systems. Several black-box…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Miguel Velez , Pooyan Jamshidi , Florian Sattler , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel , Christian Kastner

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

Variability constraints are an integral part of the requirements for a configurable system. The constraints specified in the requirements on the legal combinations of options define the space of potential valid configurations for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Chin Khor , Robyn Lutz