Traditional IT service-deployment technologies are based on scripts and configuration files,
but their limited ability to express dependencies and verify configurations results in hard-to …

Open large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural
language processing, showcasing impressive performance across various tasks. Despite …

As IT services become more powerful and complex, service deployment gets more difficult
and expensive. Service deployment, the process of making a service ready for use, often …

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) generally provides a standard vanilla server that contains
an OS and basic functions, and each user has to manually install the required applications …

The emergence of service-oriented computing, and in particular microservice architecture,
has introduced a new layer of complexity to the already challenging task of continuously …

Cloud computing is the latest trend in computing where the intention is to facilitate cheap,
utility type computing resources in a service-oriented manner. However, the cloud …

A public cloud platform offers economy of scale, ease of management, and elasticity to
solutions. In addition, regulatory compliance and security must be assured for solutions …

Abstract Service Engineering and Design (SED) aims at establishing, understanding and
managing the entire service lifecycle, including identifying, finding, designing, developing …

The increasing scale and success of distributed multi-tier applications have created
increasingly dynamic workload variations that made system performance less predictable …

Virtual Appliance (VA) promises to dramatically change how software is distributed, installed
and configured. Although it simplifies some aspects of the process, it falls short of solving the …