Context: Variability (ie, the ability of software systems or artifacts to be adjusted for different
contexts) became a key property of many systems. Objective: We analyze existing research …

More than a decade ago, the research topic models@ run. time was coined. Since then, the
research area has received increasing attention. Given the prolific results during these …

The complexity of information systems is increasing in recent years, leading to increased
effort for maintenance and configuration. Self-adaptive systems (SASs) address this issue …

In the era of mobile devices and the Internet of things, software systems are ubiquitous. A
multitude of hardware specifics, fast development of applications, and the need of …

Today's society increasingly depends on software systems deployed in large companies,
banks, airports, and so on. These systems must be available 24/7 and continuously adapt to …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging business model where tasks are accomplished by the
general public; the crowd. Crowdsourcing has been used in a variety of disciplines …

Over the last two decades, software product lines have been used successfully in industry
for building families of systems of related products, maximizing reuse, and exploiting their …

Agile teams are described as" self-organizing". How these teams actually organize
themselves in practice, however, is not well understood. Through Grounded Theory …

Web services run in complex contexts where arising events may compromise the quality of
the whole system. Thus, it is desirable to count on autonomic mechanisms to guide the self …

In the past few years, there has been a lot of research in the area of global placement. In
comparison, not much attention has been paid to the detailed placement problem. Existing …