Modern software applications are subject to uncertain operating conditions, such as
dynamics in the availability of services and variations of system goals. Consequently …

Smart cyber-physical systems (S-CPSs) are complex engineered systems empowered by
cyber-physical computing and equipped with the capability of reasoning, learning, adapting …

This paper defines software fairness and discrimination and develops a testing-based
method for measuring if and how much software discriminates, focusing on causality in …

The complexity of information systems is increasing in recent years, leading to increased
effort for maintenance and configuration. Self-adaptive systems (SASs) address this issue …

A goal of software engineering research is advancing software quality and the success of
the software engineering process. However, while recent studies have demonstrated a new …

Nowadays, IoT, cloud computing, mobile and social networks are generating a
transformation in social processes. Nevertheless, this technological change rise to new …

Bias in decisions made by modern software is becoming a common and serious problem.
We present Themis, an automated test suite generator to measure two types of …

In this article, we make the case for the new class of Self-aware Cyber-physical Systems. By
bringing together the two established fields of cyber-physical systems and self-aware …

Context Socio-technical systems are expected to understand the dynamics of the execution
environment and behave accordingly. Significant work has been done on formalizing and …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) comes along with new challenges for experimenting,
testing, and operating decentralized socio-technical systems at large-scale. In such systems …