Distributed systems have become the backbone of modern clouds. Users often expect high
scalability and performance isolation from distributed systems. Unfortunately, a type of poor …

Cloud computing is a new paradigm for software systems where applications are divided
into sets of composite services hosted on leased, highly distributed platforms. There are …

A common problem experienced in datacenters and utility clouds is the lack of knowledge
about the mappings of the services being offered to or run by external users to the sets of …

The increasing use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in DevOps leads to benefits in speed and
reliability of deployment operation, but extends to infrastructure challenges typical of …

Database-centric applications (DCAs) usually rely on database operations over a large
number of tables and attributes. Understanding how database tables and attributes are used …

An ever increasing number of configuration parameters are provided to system users. But
many users have used one configuration setting across different workloads, leaving …

In the last few years Software as a Service (SaaS) has changed from curiosity generating
concept to an accepted mainstream concept. SaaS has transformed the way software is …

Highly configurable systems are highly complex systems. The Linux kernel is arguably one
of the most well-known examples. Given its vast configuration space, researchers have used …

Existing software composition analysis (SCA) techniques for the C/C++ ecosystem tend to
identify the reused components through feature matching between target software project …

Context Software developers often use open-source libraries in their project to improve
development speed. However, such libraries may contain security vulnerabilities, and this …