Background: With the development of smart grids, accurate electric load forecasting has
become increasingly important as it can help power companies in better load scheduling and …

Short term electric load forecasting plays a crucial role for utility companies, as it allows for
the efficient operation and management of power grid networks, optimal balancing between …

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an emerging paradigm that has radically changed
the way software applications are architected, designed and implemented. SOA allows …

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is widely used in industry and is regarded as one of the
preferred architectural design technologies. As with any other software system, service-…

Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make when implementing
test cases. Hence, similar to code smells, the research community has produced numerous …

One of the widely used techniques to improve the quality of software systems is refactoring.
Software refactoring improves the internal structure of the system while preserving its …

Software defects often lead to bugs, runtime errors and software maintenance difficulties.
They should be systematically prevented, found, removed or fixed all along the software …

Third-party library reuse has become common practice in contemporary software development,
as it includes several benefits for developers. Library dependencies are constantly …

One of the most widely used techniques to improve the quality of existing software systems
is refactoring—the process of improving the design of existing code by changing its internal …

Software systems nowadays are complex and difficult to maintain due to continuous changes
and bad design choices. To handle the complexity of systems, software products are, in …