Most modern software systems (operating systems like Linux or Android, Web browsers like
Firefox or Chrome, video encoders like ffmpeg, x264 or VLC, mobile and cloud applications …

Software maintainability predicts changes or failures that may occur in software after it has
been deployed. Since it deals with the degree to which an application may be understood …

Finding good configurations of a software system is often challenging since the number of
configuration options can be large. Software engineers often make poor choices about …

Many analyses on configurable software systems are intractable when confronted with
colossal and highly-constrained configuration spaces. These analyses could instead use …

Background: As Machine Learning (ML) advances rapidly in many fields, it is being adopted
by academics and businesses alike. However, ML has a number of different challenges in …

Configurable software systems provide a multitude of configuration options to adjust and
optimize their functional and non-functional properties. For instance, to find the fastest …

Detecting and understanding reasons for defects and inadvertent behavior in software is
challenging due to their increasing complexity. In configurable software systems, the …

A typical compiler such as GCC supports hundreds of optimizations controlled by
compilation flags for improving the runtime performance of the compiled program. Due to the …

Many software systems provide users with a set of configuration options and different
configurations may lead to different runtime performance of the system. As the combination …

Performance-influence models can help stakeholders understand how and where
configuration options and their interactions influence the performance of a system. With this …