The art of performance tuning is, alas, still an art; there are few tools to help predict the effects of changes that are motivated by performance needs. In this work, we present ...
We propose a troubleshooting algorithm that can troubleshoot systems with dependent action costs. When actions are performed they may change the way the system is decomposed and af...
Abstract. The notion of dependency is ubiquitous. This paper approaches this notion from the perspective of digital information preservation. At first, an abstract notion of modul...
Abstract As distributed, networked computing systems become the dominant computing platform in a growing range of applications, they increase opportunities for security violations ...
Ali Mili, Frederick T. Sheldon, Lamia Labed Jilani...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...