Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

Randomized algorithms have been used to successfully address many different types of
software engineering problems. This type of algorithms employ a degree of randomness as …

Randomized algorithms are widely used to address many types of software engineering
problems, especially in the area of software verification and validation with a strong …

In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search-Based Software
Engineering (SBSE), an approach to Software Engineering (SE) in which Search-Based …

The increasing tendency of network service users to use cloud computing encourages web
service vendors to supply services that have different functional and nonfunctional (quality of …

Search Based Software Testing (SBST) formulates testing as an optimisation problem, which
can be attacked using computational search techniques from the field of Search Based …

Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

In recent years, several cloud services have proliferated that conspicuously result in
providing similar services having same functionality by multiple service providers, but …

Service-based systems that are dynamically composed at runtime to provide complex,
adaptive functionality are currently one of the main development paradigms in software …

This paper describes work on the application of optimization techniques in software
engineering. These optimization techniques come from the operations research and …