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Vision: An Extensible Methodology for Formal Software Verification in Microservice Systems Open

Connor Wojtak, Darek Gajewski, Tomáš Černý · 2025

Microservice systems are becoming increasingly adopted due to their scalability, decentralized development, and support for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). However, this decentralized development by separate teams and continuo…

Attack Surface Score for Software Systems Open

Yudeep Rajbhandari, Rokin Maharjan, Sabina Shrestha, Tomáš Černý · 2025

Software attack surfaces define the external boundaries—entry points, communication channels, and sensitive data stores through which adversaries may compromise a system. This paper introduces a scoring mechanism that produces a normalized…

A Case Study on Monolith to Microservices Decomposition with Variational Autoencoder-Based Graph Neural Network Open

Rokin Maharjan, Korn Sooksatra, Tomáš Černý, Yudeep Rajbhandari, Sabina Shrestha · 2025

Microservice is a popular architecture for developing cloud-native applications. However, decomposing a monolithic application into microservices remains a challenging task. This complexity arises from the need to account for factors such …

Comparison of static analysis architecture recovery tools for microservice applications Open

Simon Schneider, Alexander Bakhtin, Xiaozhou Li, Jacopo Soldani, Antonio Brogi , et al. · 2025

Architecture recovery tools help software engineers obtain an overview of the structure of their software systems during all phases of the software development life cycle. This is especially important for microservice applications because …

Exploring microservice ownership and organizational coupling in open-source projects: an empirical study Open

Xiaozhou Li, Dario Amoroso d’Aragona, Tomáš Černý, Valentina Lenarduzzi, Davide Taibi , et al. · 2025

Together with the rising popularity of microservices, practitioners have started to pay more attention to the longevity and sustainability of microservices on the organizational level. Many argue—supported by Conway’s Law—that each microse…

Generative AI for Software Architecture. Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions Open

Matteo Esposito, Sergio Moreschini, Noman Ahmad, Tomáš Černý, Karthik Vaidhyanathan , et al. · 2025

Context: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming much of software development, yet its application in software architecture is still in its infancy, and no prior study has systematically addressed the topic. Aim: We aim …

Toward Organizational Decoupling in Microservices Through Key Developer Allocation Open

Xiaozhou Li, Noman Ahmad, Tomáš Černý, Andrea Janes, Valentina Lenarduzzi , et al. · 2025

With microservices continuously being popular in the software architecture domain, more practitioners and researchers have begun to pay attention to the degradation issue that diminishes its sustainability. One of the key factors that caus…

Semantic Dependency in Microservice Architecture: A Framework for Definition and Detection Open

Amr S. Abdelfattah, Kari E Cordes, A. M. Gago, Tomáš Černý · 2025

Microservices have been a key architectural approach for over a decade, transforming system design by promoting decentralization and allowing development teams to work independently on specific microservices. While loosely coupled microser…

Towards Change Impact Analysis in Microservices-based System Evolution Open

Tomáš Černý, Gabriel Goulis, Amr S. Abdelfattah · 2025

Cloud-native systems are the mainstream for enterprise solutions, given their scalability, resilience, and other benefits. While the benefits of cloud-native systems fueled by microservices are known, less guidance exists on their evolutio…

Generative Ai for Software Architecture. Applications, Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions Open

Matteo Esposito, Xiaozhou Li, Sergio Moreschini, Noman Ahmad, Tomáš Černý , et al. · 2025

Microservice Logs Analysis Employing AI: A Systematic Literature Review Open

Md. Kamal Uddin, Shakthi Weerasinghe, Darek Gajewski, Melika Akbarsharifi, Roxana Akbarsharifi , et al. · 2025

Comparison of Static Analysis Architecture Recovery Tools for Microservice Applications Open

Simon Schneider, Alexander Bakhtin, Xiaozhou Li, Jacopo Soldani, Antonio Brogi , et al. · 2024

Architecture recovery tools help software engineers obtain an overview of the structure of their software systems during all phases of the software development life cycle. This is especially important for microservice applications because …

Assessing Evolution of Microservices Using Static Analysis Open

Amr S. Abdelfattah, Tomáš Černý, Jorge Yero, Xiaozhou Li, Davide Taibi , et al. · 2024

Microservices have gained widespread adoption in enterprise software systems because they encapsulate the expertise of specific organizational subunits. This approach offers valuable insights into internal processes and communication chann…

Is the 3D model the way to go when presenting microservice architecture? Open

Tomáš Černý, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Darek Gajewski, Patrick Harris, Mia Gortney · 2024

Using Static Analysis to Aid Monolith to Microservice System Transformation: Tuning Fuzzy c-Means in a VAE-Based GNN Approach Open

Korn Sooksatra, Md Showkat Hossain Chy, Muhmmad Ashfakur Rahman Arju, Tomáš Černý, Pablo Rivas · 2024

Bottleneck-based Encoder-decoder ARchitecture (BEAR) for Learning Unbiased Consumer-to-Consumer Image Representations Open

Pablo Rivas, Gisela Bichler, Tomáš Černý, Laurie Giddens, Stacie Petter · 2024

Unbiased representation learning is still an object of study under specific applications and contexts. Novel architectures are usually crafted to resolve particular problems using mixtures of fundamental pieces. This paper presents differe…

Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Model Generation: A Token Probability Approach Open

Ernesto Quevedo, Jorge Yero, Rachel Koerner, Pablo Rivas, Tomáš Černý · 2024

Concerns regarding the propensity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce inaccurate outputs, also known as hallucinations, have escalated. Detecting them is vital for ensuring the reliability of applications relying on LLM-generated co…

On the Challenges of Creating Datasets for Analyzing Commercial Sex Advertisements to Assess Human Trafficking Risk and Organized Activity Open

Pablo Rivas, Tomáš Černý, Alejandro Rodríguez Pérez, Javier S. Turek, Laurie Giddens , et al. · 2024

Our study addresses the challenges of building datasets to understand the risks associated with organized activities and human trafficking through commercial sex advertisements. These challenges include data scarcity, rapid obsolescence, a…

Test Coverage in Microservice Systems: An Automated Approach to E2E and API Test Coverage Metrics Open

Amr S. Abdelfattah, Tomáš Černý, Jorge Yero, Eun-Jee Song, Davide Taibi · 2024

Test coverage is a critical aspect of the software development process, aiming for overall confidence in the product. When considering cloud-native systems, testing becomes complex, as it becomes necessary to deal with multiple distributed…

A Dataset of Microservices-based Open-Source Projects Open

Dario Amoroso d’Aragona, Alexander Bakhtin, Xiaozhou Li, Ruoyu Su, Lauren Adams , et al. · 2024

Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems? Open

Jacoby Johnson, Subash Kharel, Alan Mannamplackal, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Tomáš Černý · 2024

Cloud-native and microservice architectures have taken over the development world by storm. While being incredibly scalable and resilient, microservice architectures also come at the cost of increased overhead to build and maintain. Google…

Comparison of Static Analysis Architecture Recovery Tools for Microservice Applications Open

Simon Schneider, Alexander Bakhtin, Xiaozhou Li, Jacopo Soldani, Antonio Brogi , et al. · 2024

Architecture recovery tools help software engineers obtain an overview of their software systems during all phases of the software development lifecycle. This is especially important for microservice applications because their distributed …

On Maintainability and Microservice Dependencies: How Do Changes Propagate? Open

Tomáš Černý, Md Showkat Hossain Chy, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Jacopo Soldani, Justus Bogner · 2024

Modern software systems evolve rapidly, especially when boosted by continuous integration and delivery. While many tools exist to help manage the maintainability of monolithic systems, gaps remain in assessing changes in decentralized syst…

Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-Native Systems? Open

Jacoby Johnson, Subash Kharel, Alan Mannamplackal, Amr S. Abdelfattah, Tomáš Černý · 2024

No Thumbs Up in Pictures! Experimental Fingerprint Forgery for Inexperienced Impostors Open

Agáta Kružíková, Alessia Michela Di Campi, Vashek Matyáš, Tomáš Černý · 2024

Fingerprint verification is a popular smartphone authentication method used even for sensitive services such as banking. However, fingerprint verification also has some issues, such as spoofing even by inexperienced impostors utilizing a t…

Comparative Evaluation of Java Virtual Machine-Based Message Queue Services: A Study on Kafka, Artemis, Pulsar, and RocketMQ Open

Md Showkat Hossain Chy, Muhammad Ashfakur Rahman Arju, Sri Manjusha Tella, Tomáš Černý · 2023

Message Queue (MQ) services play a vital role in modern distributed systems as they enable asynchronous communication between services and facilitate the decoupling of various components of the system. Among the many MQ services available,…

Legal Natural Language Processing From 2015 to 2022: A Comprehensive Systematic Mapping Study of Advances and Applications Open

Ernesto Quevedo, Tomáš Černý, Alejandro Rodríguez, Pablo Rivas, Jorge Yero , et al. · 2023

The surge in legal text production has amplified the workload for legal professionals, making many tasks repetitive and time-consuming. Furthermore, the complexity and specialized language of legal documents pose challenges not just for th…

Unikernels Motivations, Benefits and Issues: A Multivocal Literature Review Open

Nabil El Ioini, Ayoub El Majjodi, David Hästbacka, Tomáš Černý, Davide Taibi · 2023

While working in the cloud, the trend is to secure all the resources in order for the applications and systems to operate as efficiently as possible. Huge amounts of resources are wasted on unnecessary utilities and resource-consuming proc…

Benchmarking Micro2Micro Transformation: An Approach with GNN and VAE Open

Md Showkat Hossain Chy, Korn Sooksatra, Tomáš Černý · 2023

This research ventures into the emerging domain of microservice-to-microservice transformation, a novel concept focused on optimizing existing cloud-native systems. We experiment with a machine learning methodology initially designed for m…

Benchmarking Micro2Micro Transformation: An Approach with GNN and VAE Open

Md Showkat Hossain Chy, Korn Sooksatra, Tomáš Černý · 2023

This research ventures into the emerging domain of microservice-to-microservice transformation, a novel concept focused on optimizing existing cloud-native systems. We experiment with a machine learning methodology initially designed for m…

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