Causality is an important concept throughout the health sciences and is particularly vital for
informatics work such as finding adverse drug events or risk factors for disease using …

A cloud is a distributed Internet-based software system providing resources as tiered
services. Through service-orientation and virtualization for resource provisioning, cloud …

The use of dynamic information to aid in software understanding is a common practice
nowadays. One of the many approaches concerns the comprehension of execution traces. A …

Wireless communication provides unique security challenges, but also enables novel ways
to defend against attacks. In the past few years, a number of works discussed the use of …

Mobile edge computing is a new computing paradigm that performs computing on the edge
of a network. It provides services to users by deploying edge servers near mobile devices …

Abstract [Context] Complex and heterogeneous software systems need to be monitored as
their full behavior often only emerges at runtime, eg, when interacting with other systems or …

Cloud systems provide elastic execution environments of resources that link application and
infrastructure/platform components, which are both exposed to uncertainties and change …

Runtime monitoring is critical for ensuring safe operation and for enabling self-adaptive
behavior of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Monitors are established by identifying runtime …

Monitoring allows for checking if a system fulfils its requirements at runtime. This is required
for quality assurance purposes. Currently several approaches exist to monitor standard and …

Abstract Context Quality of Service (QoS) is an important criterion to measure the quality of
third-party web services. However, it is always affected by different environmental factors …