一句话：系统研究云与数据中心系统中的配置依赖，并提出发现这些依赖的方法，以应对多参数配置问题。
论文关注云与数据中心系统中普遍存在的配置问题：许多误配置并非由单个参数引起，而是涉及多个相互依赖的配置参数。现有技术和工具要么忽略配置参数之间的依赖关系（配置依赖），要么仅依赖一两种依赖类型和代码模式作为输入，因而难以系统处理由此产生的配置问题。论文旨在深入理解配置依赖的本质，并在此基础上发现软件系统中的配置依赖。通过建立对配置依赖更严谨的认识，论文希望为诊断、预防和修复多参数相关的配置问题提供基础。摘要未具体说明所采用的实验或评估细节。
A large percentage of real-world software configuration issues, such as misconfigurations, involve multiple interdependent configuration parameters. However, existing techniques and tools either do not consider dependencies among configuration parameters— termed configuration dependencies—or rely on one or two dependency types and code patterns as input. Without rigorous understanding of configuration dependencies, it is hard to deal with many resulting configuration issues.
@inproceedings{paperbot5733,
title = {Understanding and discovering software configuration dependencies in cloud and datacenter systems},
author = {Qingrong Chen and Teng Wang and Owolabi Legunsen and Shanshan Li and Tianyin Xu},
booktitle = {FSE},
year = {2020},
doi = {10.1145/3368089.3409727}
}