Customers are getting increasingly involved in the design of the products and services they choose by specifying their desired characteristics. As a result, configuration systems have become essential technologies to support ...

Place Recommendation Systems (PRS's) are used to recommend places to visit to World Wide Web users. Existing PRS's are still limited by several problems, some of which are the problem of recommending similar set of places ...

As systems grow in size and complexity so do their configuration possibilities. Users of modern systems are easy to be confused and overwhelmed by the amount of choices they need to make in order to fit their systems to ...

Cloud computing is increasingly being adopted due to its cost savings and abilities to scale. As data continues to grow rapidly, an increasing amount of institutions are adopting non standard SQL clusters to address the ...

Designing an adaptive system to meet its quality constraints in the face of environmental uncertainties, such as variable demands, can be a challenging task. In cloud environment, a designer has to also consider and evaluate ...

Agile Methods are characterized as flexible and easily adaptable. The need to keep up with multiple high-priority projects and shorter time-to-market demands could explain their increasing popularity. It also raises ...