Software - Practice and Experience, Volume 48

Volume 48, Number 1, January 2018

Research Articles

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  Petr Nejedly, Filip Plesinger, Josef Halámek, Pavel Jurák:
  CudaFilters: A SignalPlant library for GPU-accelerated FFT and FIR filtering. 3-9
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  Matias Urbieta, Darian Frajberg, Gustavo Rossi:
  Assessing the impact of Volatile Functionality removal in web applications: Model-Driven vs Code-Based approaches. 11-43
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  Nikos Chondros, Mema Roussopoulos:
  Developing IntegrityCatalog, a software system for managing integrity-related metadata in digital repositories. 45-64
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  Shunsuke Kanda, Yuma Fujita, Kazuhiro Morita, Masao Fuketa:
  Practical rearrangement methods for dynamic double-array dictionaries. 65-83
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  Thiago Soares Fernandes, Álvaro Freitas Moreira, Érika F. Cota:
  EPE-Mobile - A framework for early performance estimation of mobile applications. 85-104
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  Huifeng Chen, Jianmin Jiang, Zhong Hong, Ling Lin:
  Decomposition of UML activity diagrams. 105-122
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  Nieves R. Brisaboa, Ricardo Cao, José R. Paramá, Fernando Silva-Coira:
  Scalable processing and autocovariance computation of big functional data. 123-140
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  Fabrizio Milazzo, Vito Gentile, Antonio Gentile, Salvatore Sorce:
  KIND-DAMA: A modular middleware for Kinect-like device data management. 141-160

Extended Conference Papers

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  Thomas S. Heinze, Wolfram Amme, Simon Moser:
  Static analysis and process model transformation for an advanced business process to Petri net mapping. 161-195
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  Dayse Silveira de Almeida, Carmem Satie Hara, Ricardo Rodrigues Ciferri, Cristina Dutra de Aguiar Ciferri:
  An asynchronous collaborative reconciliation model based on data provenance. 197-232
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  Jagannath Singh, Durga Prasad Mohapatra:
  Dynamic slicing of concurrent AspectJ programs: An explicit context-sensitive approach. 233-260

Volume 48, Number 2, February 2018

Design Methods for Software Architectures in the Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Paradigms
Editorial

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  Manuel Mora Tavarez, Rory O'Connor, Frank Tsui, Jorge Marx Gómez:
  Design methods for software architectures in the service-oriented computing and cloud paradigms. 263-267

Special Issue Papers

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  Sebastian Lehrig, Marcus Hilbrich, Steffen Becker:
  The architectural template method: templating architectural knowledge to efficiently conduct quality-of-service analyses. 268-299
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  Wuping Xie, Jinyun Xue, Dongming Jiang, Lan Song:
  An iteration-based interactive analysis method to design dynamic service-oriented systems. 300-326
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  Miguel Zúñiga-Prieto, Javier González-Huerta, Emilio Insfrán, Silvia Abrahão:
  Dynamic reconfiguration of cloud application architectures. 327-344
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  Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran, Santonu Sarkar:
  Architectural partitioning and deployment modeling on hybrid clouds. 345-365
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  Guoqi Xie, Yuekun Chen, Yan Liu, Chunnian Fan, Renfa Li, Keqin Li:
  JDAS: a software development framework for multidatabases. 366-382

Volume 48, Number 3, March 2018

Survey Paper

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  Pilsung Kang:
  Function call interception techniques. 385-401

Research Articles

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  Jacob Krüger, Marcus Pinnecke, Andy Kenner, Christopher Kruczek, Fabian Benduhn, Thomas Leich, Gunter Saake:
  Composing annotations without regret? Practical experiences using FeatureC. 402-427
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  Shuanglong Kan, Zhiqiu Huang:
  Detecting safety-related components in statecharts through traceability and model slicing. 428-448
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  Mirsaeid Hosseini Shirvani, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Amir Sahafi:
  An iterative mathematical decision model for cloud migration: A cost and security risk approach. 449-485
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  Álvaro López García, Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, Pablo Orviz Fernández, Isabel Campos Plasencia, Jesús Marco de Lucas:
  Resource provisioning in Science Clouds: Requirements and challenges. 486-498
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  Tânia Basso, Leonardo Montecchi, Regina Moraes, Mário Jino, Andrea Bondavalli:
  PrivAPP: An integrated approach for the design of privacy-aware applications. 499-527
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  Pawel Kobylinski, Konrad Siek, Jan Baranowski, Pawel T. Wojciechowski:
  Helenos: A realistic benchmark for distributed transactional memory. 528-549
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  Ignacio Cassol, Gabriela Arévalo:
  A methodology to infer and refactor an object-oriented model from C applications. 550-577
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  Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola, Enrique Soriano:
  ZX: A network file system for high-latency networks. 578-599
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  Chung-Ming Huang, Chia-Ming Mai:
  K-MING: A mobile proxy handoff control scheme for proximate group-based geodata sharing. 600-620

Extended Conference Papers

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  Jin-woo Kwon, InChang Jeong, Soo-Mook Moon:
  Lightweight migration for web applications with framework separation. 621-640
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  Neelofar, Lee Naish, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
  Spectral-based fault localization using hyperbolic function. 641-664

Experience Reports

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  Brett Snyder, Robert C. Green II, Vijay K. Devabhaktuni, Mansoor Alam:
  ReliaCloud-NS: A scalable web-based simulation platform for evaluating the reliability of cloud computing systems. 665-680
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  Robert Denz, Scott Brookes, Martin Osterloh, Stephen Kuhn, Stephen Taylor:
  Symmetric multiprocessing from boot to virtualization. 681-718
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  Miroslaw Staron, Wilhelm Meding, Matthias Tichy, Jonas Bjurhede, Holger Giese, Ola Soder:
  Industrial experiences from evolving measurement systems into self-healing systems for improved availability. 719-739

Short Communications

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  Juan José Echevarria, Pablo Garaizar, Jon Legarda:
  An experimental study on the applicability of SYN cookies to networked constrained devices. 740-749
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  Joaquim Mendes, Nuno Laranjeiro, Marco Vieira:
  Toward characterizing HTML defects on the Web. 750-757

Volume 48, Number 4, April 2018

Research Articles

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  Allal Tiberkak, Tayeb Lemlouma, Abdelkader Belkhir, Ahmed Bouabdallah, Abdelfetah Hentout:
  A novel approach for generic home emergency management and remote monitoring. 761-774
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  Haoyu Luo, Jin Liu, Xiao Liu, Yun Yang:
  Predicting temporal violations for parallel business cloud workflows. 775-795
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  Meng-Han Tsai, Kuan-Chou Lai, Hsi-Ya Chang, Kuan Fu Chen, Kuo-Chan Huang:
  Pewss: A platform of extensible workflow simulation service for workflow scheduling research. 796-819
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  Tommaso Cucinotta, Luca Abeni, Juri Lelli, Giuseppe Lipari:
  Improving responsiveness of time-sensitive applications by exploiting dynamic task dependencies. 820-841
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  Amin Beheshti, Boualem Benatallah, Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad:
  ProcessAtlas: A scalable and extensible platform for business process analytics. 842-866
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  Daniel Lemire, Owen Kaser, Nathan Kurz, Luca Deri, Chris O'Hara, François Saint-Jacques, Gregory Ssi Yan Kai:
  Roaring bitmaps: Implementation of an optimized software library. 867-895
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  Pradeep Tomar, Rajesh Mishra, Kavita Sheoran:
  Prediction of quality using ANN based on Teaching-Learning Optimization in component-based software systems. 896-910

Extended Conference Papers

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  Changhee Park, Hongki Lee, Sukyoung Ryu:
  Static analysis of JavaScript libraries in a scalable and precise way using loop sensitivity. 911-944
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  Chris D'Souza, Vincenzo Deufemia, Athula Ginige, Giuseppe Polese:
  Enabling the generation of web applications from mockups. 945-973

Short Communication

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  Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat:
  Compact inverted index storage using general-purpose compression libraries. 974-982

Volume 48, Number 5, May 2018

Research Articles

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  Mert Ozkaya:
  The analysis of architectural languages for the needs of practitioners. 985-1018
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  Houssem Daoud, Michel R. Dagenais:
  Recovering disk storage metrics from low-level trace events. 1019-1041
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  Suchakrapani Datt Sharma, Michel R. Dagenais:
  Hardware trace reconstruction of runtime compiled code. 1042-1055
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  Shouki A. Ebad:
  The influencing causes of software unavailability: A case study from industry. 1056-1076

Extended Conference Papers

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  Everton T. Guimarães, Santiago A. Vidal, Alessandro F. Garcia, Jorge Andrés Díaz Pace, Claudia A. Marcos:
  Exploring architecture blueprints for prioritizing critical code anomalies: Experiences and tool support. 1077-1106
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  Yauhen Leanidavich Arnatovich, Lipo Wang, Minh Ngoc Ngo, Charlie Soh:
  Mobolic: An automated approach to exercising mobile application GUIs using symbiosis of online testing technique and customated input generation. 1107-1142

Experience Report

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  Razieh Malekhosseini, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Keyvan Navi:
  Evaluation of users' privacy concerns by checking of their WhatsApp status. 1143-1164

Volume 48, Number 6, June 2018

Research Articles

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  Alexios Lekidis, Emmanouela Stachtiari, Panagiotis Katsaros, Marius Bozga, Christos K. Georgiadis:
  Model-based design of IoT systems with the BIP component framework. 1167-1194
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  Alexis Martin, Vania Marangozova-Martin:
  Automatic benchmark profiling through advanced workflow-based trace analysis. 1195-1217
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  Jhonny Mertz, Ingrid Nunes:
  Automation of application-level caching in a seamless way. 1218-1237
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  Daniel Pérez-Berenguer, Jesús García Molina:
  A standard-based architecture to support learning interoperability: A practical experience in gamification. 1238-1268
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  Donghai Tian, Xi Xiong, Changzhen Hu, Peng Liu:
  A policy-centric approach to protecting OS kernel from vulnerable LKMs. 1269-1284
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  Haithem Mezni, Mokhtar Sellami:
  A negotiation-based service selection approach using swarm intelligence and kernel density estimation. 1285-1311

Extended Conference Paper

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  Sheng-Yu Fu, Ding-Yong Hong, Yu-Ping Liu, Jan-Jan Wu, Wei-Chung Hsu:
  Efficient and retargetable SIMD translation in a dynamic binary translator. 1312-1330

Volume 48, Number 7, July 2018

Cover Image

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  Yogesh Simmhan, Pushkara Ravindra, Shilpa Chaturvedi, Malati Hegde, Rashmi Ballamajalu:
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Research Articles

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  Qing Huang, Yangrui Yang, Xue Zhan, Hongyan Wan, Guoqing Wu:
  Query expansion based on statistical learning from code changes. 1333-1351
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  Quan Zou, Guoqing Li, Wenyang Yu:
  MapReduce functions to remote sensing distributed data processing - Global vegetation drought monitoring as example. 1352-1367
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  Zoltán Ádám Mann:
  Cloud simulators in the implementation and evaluation of virtual machine placement algorithms. 1368-1389

Experience Report

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  Yogesh Simmhan, Pushkara Ravindra, Shilpa Chaturvedi, Malati Hegde, Rashmi Ballamajalu:
  Towards a data-driven IoT software architecture for smart city utilities. 1390-1416

Volume 48, Number 8, August 2018

Cover Image

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  Rustem Dautov, Salvatore Distefano, Dario Bruneo, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, Antonio Puliafito, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Cover Image Volume 48, Issue 8. i

Extended Conference Papers

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  Yifei Zhang, Yue Li, Tian Tan, Jingling Xue:
  Ripple: Reflection analysis for Android apps in incomplete information environments. 1419-1437
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  Hafedh Mili, Petko Valtchev, Laszlo Szathmary, Anis Boubaker, Abderrahmane Leshob, Yasmine Charif, Louis Martin:
  Ontology-based model-driven development of a destination management portal: Experience and lessons learned. 1438-1460
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  Antonio Brogi, Davide Neri, Jacopo Soldani:
  A microservice-based architecture for (customisable) analyses of Docker images. 1461-1474

Research Articles

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  Rustem Dautov, Salvatore Distefano, Dario Bruneo, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, Antonio Puliafito, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Metropolitan intelligent surveillance systems for urban areas by harnessing IoT and edge computing paradigms. 1475-1492
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  Gábor Márton, Zoltán Porkoláb:
  Selective friends in C++. 1493-1519

Volume 48, Number 9, September 2018

Research Articles

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  Yufeng Liu, Xiaoqin Zeng, Yang Zou, Kang Zhang:
  A graph grammar-based approach for graph layout. 1523-1535
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  Guisheng Fan, Liqiong Chen, Huiqun Yu, Dongmei Liu:
  Formally modeling and analyzing cost-aware job scheduling for cloud data center. 1536-1559
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  Md. Masudur Rahman, Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Shah Mostafa Khaled, Abdus Satter, Md. Rayhanur Rahman:
  MMRUC3: A recommendation approach of move method refactoring using coupling, cohesion, and contextual similarity to enhance software design. 1560-1587
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  Kai Shi, Huiqun Yu, Jianmei Guo, Guisheng Fan, Xingguang Yang:
  A parallel portfolio approach to configuration optimization for large software product lines. 1588-1606
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  Paolo Cappellari, Mark Roantree, Soon Ae Chun:
  Optimizing data stream processing for large-scale applications. 1607-1641
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  Behnam Momeni, Mehdi Kharrazi:
  LDMBL: An architecture for reducing code duplication in heavyweight binary instrumentations. 1642-1659
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  Nidhi Tiwari, Umesh Bellur, Santonu Sarkar, Maria Indrawan:
  Optimizing MapReduce for energy efficiency. 1660-1687

Survey Paper

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  Reza Mohamadi Bahram Abadi, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Sasan Hossein Alizadeh:
  Server consolidation techniques in virtualized data centers of cloud environments: A systematic literature review. 1688-1726

Volume 48, Number 10, October 2018

Metaheuristics in cloud computing

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  Leonard Heilig, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Stefan Voß, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Metaheuristics in cloud computing. 1729-1733
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  Hamid Reza Faragardi, Saeid Dehnavi, Thomas Nolte, Mehdi Kargahi, Thomas Fahringer:
  An energy-aware resource provisioning scheme for real-time applications in a cloud data center. 1734-1757
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  Amin Yousefipour, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Mohsen Jahanshahi:
  Energy and cost-aware virtual machine consolidation in cloud computing. 1758-1774
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  Patricia Arroba, José L. Risco-Martín, José Manuel Moya, José L. Ayala:
  Heuristics and metaheuristics for dynamic management of computing and cooling energy in cloud data centers. 1775-1804
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  Keqin Li:
  Optimal load distribution for multiple classes of applications on heterogeneous servers with variable speeds. 1805-1819
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  Hassan Ziafat, Seyed Morteza Babamir:
  Optimal selection of VMs for resource task scheduling in geographically distributed clouds using fuzzy c-mean and MOLP. 1820-1846
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  Walid Chainbi, E. Sassi:
  A multiswarm for composite SaaS placement optimization based on PSO. 1847-1864
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  Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani, Ali Asghar Rahmanian, Alireza Souri, Amir Masoud Rahmani:
  A moth-flame optimization algorithm for web service composition in cloud computing: Simulation and verification. 1865-1892
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  Hamid Reza Faragardi, Maryam Vahabi, Hossein Fotouhi, Thomas Nolte, Thomas Fahringer:
  An efficient placement of sinks and SDN controller nodes for optimizing the design cost of industrial IoT systems. 1893-1919

Volume 48, Number 11, November 2018

Cover Image

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  Rui Wang, Shi Ying:
  Cover Image Volume 48, Issue 11. i

Research Articles

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  Cheah Wai Shiang, Fu Swee Tee, Alfian Abdul Halin, Keng-Yap Ng, Puah Chin Hong:
  Ontology reuse for multiagent system development through pattern classification. 1923-1939
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  Bernardo Villalba Frias, Luigi Palopoli, Luca Abeni, Daniele Fontanelli:
  The PROSIT tool: Toward the optimal design of probabilistic soft real-time systems. 1940-1967
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  Xiaoyan Zhu, Binbin Niu, E. James Whitehead Jr., Zhongbin Sun:
  An empirical study of software change classification with imbalance data-handling methods. 1968-1999
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  Rui Wang, Shi Ying:
  SaaS software performance issue identification using HMRF-MAP framework. 2000-2018
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  Armin Balalaie, Abbas Heydarnoori, Pooyan Jamshidi, Damian A. Tamburri, Theo Lynn:
  Microservices migration patterns. 2019-2042

Extended Conference Papers

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  Tomasz Marek Kowalski, Szymon Grabowski:
  Faster range minimum queries. 2043-2060
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  Antonio Brogi, Luca Rinaldi, Jacopo Soldani:
  TosKer: A synergy between TOSCA and Docker for orchestrating multicomponent applications. 2061-2079

Survey Paper

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  Haithem Mezni, Mayssa Fayala:
  Time-aware service recommendation: Taxonomy, review, and challenges. 2080-2108

Volume 48, Number 12, December 2018

Research Articles

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  Aaron Moss, Robert Schluntz, Peter A. Buhr:
  C : Adding modern programming language features to C. 2111-2146
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  Reihaneh Khorsand, Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani, Mohammadreza Ramezanpour:
  FAHP approach for autonomic resource provisioning of multitier applications in cloud computing environments. 2147-2173
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  Safiollah Heidari, Rajkumar Buyya:
  Cost-efficient and network-aware dynamic repartitioning-based algorithms for scheduling large-scale graphs in cloud computing environments. 2174-2192
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  Hsung-Pin Chang, Cheng-Pang Chiang:
  PARC: A novel OS cache manager. 2193-2222
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  Gustavo Pinto, Fernando Castor, Rodrigo Bonifácio, Marcel Rebouças:
  Work practices and challenges in continuous integration: A survey with Travis CI users. 2223-2236
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  Elena Reshetova, Hans Liljestrand, Andrew Paverd, N. Asokan:
  Toward Linux kernel memory safety. 2237-2256
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  Sajjad Tofighy, Ali Asghar Rahmanian, Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani:
  An ensemble CPU load prediction algorithm using a Bayesian information criterion and smooth filters in a cloud computing environment. 2257-2277
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  Ronaldo Gonçalves Junior, Américo Sampaio, Tiago Rolim, Nabor C. Mendonça:
  Cloud application architecture appraiser (CA3): A multicriteria approach and tool for assessing cloud deployment options based on nonfunctional requirements. 2278-2301

Experience Reports

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  Giulio Ganino, Domenico Lembo, Massimo Mecella, Federico Scafoglieri:
  Ontology population for open-source intelligence: A GATE-based solution. 2302-2330
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  Jae Hyuk Suk, Jae-Yung Lee, Hongjoo Jin, In Seok Kim, Dong Hoon Lee:
  UnThemida: Commercial obfuscation technique analysis with a fully obfuscated program. 2331-2349

Extended Conference Paper

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  Atif Mashkoor, Felix Kossak, Alexander Egyed:
  Evaluating the suitability of state-based formal methods for industrial deployment. 2350-2379

Short Communication

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  Massimo Ceraolo:
  Experiences in creating a software tool to analyze and postprocess simulated and measured data. 2380-2388