Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to
customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases …

Similarity search is a general class of problems in which a given object, called a query
object, is compared against a collection of objects in order to retrieve those that most closely …

It is common for large organizations to maintain repositories of business process models in
order to document and to continuously improve their operations. Given such a repository …

We investigate the problem of ranking all process models in a repository according to their
similarity with respect to a given process model. We focus specifically on the application of …

This article addresses the problem of constructing consolidated business process models
out of collections of process models that share common fragments. The article considers the …

Engineering of process-driven business applications can be supported by process modeling
efforts in order to bridge the gap between business requirements and system specifications …

Calculating differences between models is an important and challenging task in Model
Driven Engineering. Model differencing involves a number of steps starting with identifying …

Since software systems need to be continuously available under varying conditions, their
ability to evolve at runtime is increasingly seen as one key issue. Modern programming …

Models are good at expressing information about software but not as good at expressing
modelers' uncertainty about it. The highly incremental and iterative nature of software …

Sleep deprivation attacks are a form of denial of service attack whereby an attacker renders
a pervasive computing device inoperable by draining the battery more quickly than it would …