English
Related papers

Related papers: ConfigFix: Interactive Configuration Conflict Reso…

200 papers

Separation kernels are fundamental software of safety and security-critical systems, which provide to their hosted applications spatial and temporal separation as well as controlled information flows among partitions. The application of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Yongwang Zhao

Modern programming languages, most notably Rust, offer advanced linguistic constructs for building highly configurable software systems as aggregation of features -- identified by a configuration. However, they pose substantial challenges…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Federico Bruzzone , Walter Cazzola , Luca Favini

Information Fusion Systems are now widely used in different fusion contexts, like scientific processing, sensor networks, video and image processing. One of the current trends in this area is to cope with distributed systems. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Eric Benoit , Marc-Philippe Huget , Patrice Moreaux , Olivier Passalacqua

The operation of instruments and detectors in laboratory or beamline environments presents a complex challenge, requiring stable operation of multiple concurrent devices, often controlled by separate hardware and software solutions. These…

Realizing large-scale quantum advantage is expected to require quantum error correction (QEC), making the compilation and optimization of logical operations a critical area of research. Logical computation imposes distinct constraints and…

Linux kernel tuning is essential for optimizing operating system (OS) performance. However, existing methods often face challenges in terms of efficiency, scalability, and generalization. This paper introduces OS-R1, an agentic Linux kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hongyu Lin , Yuchen Li , Haoran Luo , Kaichun Yao , Libo Zhang , Mingjie Xing , Yanjun Wu

With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), it is gaining a lot of attention. It is important to secure the embedded systems with low overhead. The Linux Seccomp is widely used by developers to secure the kernels by blocking the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dongyang Zhan , Zhaofeng Yu , Xiangzhan Yu , Hongli Zhang , Lin Ye , Likun Liu

Within the printing industry, much of the variety in printed applications comes from the variety in finishing. Finishing comprises the processing of sheets of paper after being printed, e.g. to form books. The configuration space of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jasper Denkers , Marvin Brunner , Louis van Gool , Eelco Visser

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are intensively used to solve a wide variety of complex problems. Although powerful, such systems require manual configuration and tuning. To this end, we view DNNs as configurable systems and propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend suitable items to users through natural language conversations. For developing effective CRSs, a major technical issue is how to accurately infer user preference from very limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yuanhang Zhou , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Cheng Wang , Peng Jiang , He Hu

Assertions are a classical and typical software development technique. These are extensively used also in operating systems and their kernels, including the Linux kernel. The paper fills a gap in existing knowledge by empirically examining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jukka Ruohonen

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

We tackle the problem of constructive preference elicitation, that is the problem of learning user preferences over very large decision problems, involving a combinatorial space of possible outcomes. In this setting, the suggested…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-08 Paolo Dragone , Stefano Teso , Mohit Kumar , Andrea Passerini

User profiling, as a core technique for user understanding, aims to infer structural attributes from user information. Large Language Models (LLMs) provide a promising avenue for user profiling, yet the progress is hindered by the lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yingxin Li , Jianbo Zhao , Xueyu Ren , Jie Tang , Wangjie You , Xu Chen , Kan Zhou , Chao Feng , Jiao Ran , Yuan Meng , Zhi Wang

In the contemporary business landscape, collaboration across multiple organizations offers a multitude of opportunities, including reduced operational costs, enhanced performance, and accelerated technological advancement. The application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Valerio Goretti , Davide Basile , Luca Barbaro , Claudio Di Ciccio

We use the reconfiguration framework to analyze problems that involve the rearrangement of items among groups. In various applications, a group of items could correspond to the files or jobs assigned to a particular machine, and the goal of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jeffrey Kam , Shahin Kamali , Avery Miller , Naomi Nishimura

Some of them proposed an approach in which involved stakeholders can freely configure the product line without being constrained by the choices made the other ones. The core of any proposed approach in this context focuses on how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Sihem Ben Sassi

We study the problem of constrained efficient global optimization, where both the objective and constraints are expensive black-box functions that can be learned with Gaussian processes. We propose CONFIG (CONstrained efFIcient Global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Wenjie Xu , Yuning Jiang , Bratislav Svetozarevic , Colin N. Jones

Configuration management in networks with highest security demands must not depend on just one administrator and her device. Otherwise, problems can be caused by mistakes or malicious behavior of this admin, or when her computer got…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Holger Kinkelin , Heiko Niedermayer , Marc Müller , Georg Carle

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…