Recent years have seen an increasing trend towards the development of Discrete Event
Simulation (DES) platforms to support cloud computing related decision making and …

A new, quantitative architecture simulation approach to software design that circumvents
costly testing cycles by modeling quality of service in early design states. Too often, software …

While the number of cloud solutions is continuously increasing, the development and
operation of large-scale and distributed cloud applications are still challenging. A major …

The market of cloud computing encompasses an ever-growing number of cloud providers
offering a multitude of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) …

5G networks are expected to support various services and applications with more stringent
latency, reliability, and bandwidth requirements than previous generations. Open Radio …

Dynamically adaptive systems (DAS) enable the continuous design and adaptation of
complex software systems, but their main focus is limited to the application itself rather than …

Today's system developers and operators face the challenge of creating software systems
that make efficient use of dynamically allocated resources under highly variable and …

Cloud computing theoretically offers its customers unlimited cloud resources. However, the
scalability of software services is often limited by their underlying architecture. In contrast to …

In order to meet the stringent latency and reliability requirements of the upcoming 5G
networks, Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) has been proposed. The virtualization of O …

Abstract Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud domain brings great benefits of an elastic
platform with many prefabricated services, but at the same time challenges software …