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Quality attributes and constraints are among the main drivers of architectural decision making. The quality attributes are improved or damaged by the architectural decisions, while restrictions directly include or exclude parts of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-06-25 David Ameller , Xavier Franch

Over the years, Software Quality Engineering has increased interest, demonstrated by significant research papers published in this area. Determining when a software artifact is qualitatively valid is tricky, given the impossibility of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Francesco Basciani , Daniele Di Pompeo , Juri Di Rocco , Alfonso Pierantonio

Due to the growing complexity of software systems, there has been a dramatic increase and industry demand for tools and techniques on software refactoring in the last ten years, defined traditionally as a set of program transformations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Chaima Abid , Vahid Alizadeh , Marouane Kessentini , Thiago do Nascimento Ferreira , Danny Dig

Context: Refactoring is the art of modifying the design of a system without altering its behavior. The idea is to reorganize variables, classes and methods to facilitate their future adaptations and comprehension. As the concept of behavior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian Newman , Ali Ouni

Whenever an architect or a team of architects begins an architectural design, there are certain goals set to achieve. There are many factors involved in setting up goals for the architecture design such as type of the project, end user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization is to locate (almost) equivalent Pareto optimal solutions as many as possible. While decomposition-based evolutionary algorithms have good performance for multi-objective optimization, they are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

In multi-objective optimization problems, there might exist hidden objectives that are important to the decision-maker but are not being optimized. On the other hand, there might also exist irrelevant objectives that are being optimized but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Seyed Mahdi Shavarani , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Richard Allmendinger

Testing provides means pertaining to assuring software performance. The total aim of software industry is actually to make a certain start associated with high quality software for the end user. However, associated with software testing has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Ahmed Mateen , Marriam Nazir , Salman Afsar Awan

In this paper, a multi-objective approach for the design of composite data-driven mathematical models is proposed. It allows automating the identification of graph-based heterogeneous pipelines that consist of different blocks: machine…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Iana S. Polonskaia , Nikolay O. Nikitin , Ilia Revin , Pavel Vychuzhanin , Anna V. Kalyuzhnaya

Multiobjective feature selection seeks to determine the most discriminative feature subset by simultaneously optimizing two conflicting objectives: minimizing the number of selected features and the classification error rate. The goal is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhenxing Zhang , Qianxiang An , Yilei Wang , Chenfeng Wu , Baoling Dong , Chunjie Zhou

The performance of multiobjective algorithms varies across problems, making it hard to develop new algorithms or apply existing ones to new problems. To simplify the development and application of new multiobjective algorithms, there has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yuri Lavinas , Marcelo Ladeira , Gabriela Ochoa , Claus Aranha

Real-life engineering optimization problems need Multiobjective Optimization (MOO) tools. These problems are highly nonlinear. As the process of Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) is much expanded most MOO problems in different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-20 A. Mosavi

Today, data guides the decision-making process of most companies. Effectively analyzing and manipulating data at scale to extract and exploit relevant knowledge is a challenging task, due to data characteristics such as its size, the rate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Arianna Dragoni , Alessandro Margara

This study presents AIOptimizer, a prototype for a cost-reduction-based software performance optimisation tool. The study focuses on the design elements of AIOptimizer, including user-friendliness, scalability, accuracy, and adaptability.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Noopur Zambare

The escalating risk of urban inundation has drawn increased attention to urban stormwater management. This study proposes a multi-objective optimization for terrain modification, combining the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Hanwen Xu , Mark Randall , Lei Li , Yuyi Tan , Thomas Balstrøm

Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems. Several system variants exist at the same time in order to adapt to changing user requirements. Additionally, software systems evolve over time in order to adjust to unanticipated changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Arne Haber , Holger Renel , Bernhard Rumpe , Ina Schaefer

Multiobjective optimization problems with heterogeneous objectives are defined as those that possess significantly different types of objective function components (not just incommensurable in units or scale). For example, in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Richard Allmendinger , Joshua Knowles

The genetic algorithm is an optimization procedure motivated by biological evolution and is successfully applied to optimization problems in different areas. A statistical mechanics model for its dynamics is proposed based on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Bornholdt

In Multi-Task Learning (MTL), it is a common practice to train multi-task networks by optimizing an objective function, which is a weighted average of the task-specific objective functions. Although the computational advantages of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Lucas Pascal , Pietro Michiardi , Xavier Bost , Benoit Huet , Maria A. Zuluaga

Architecture evaluation methods have long been used to evaluate software designs. Several evaluation methods have been proposed and used to analyze tradeoffs between different quality attributes. Having competing qualities leads to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rafael Capilla , J. Andrés Díaz-Pace , Yamid Ramírez , Jennifer Pérez , Vanessa Rodríguez-Horcajo