Performance Analysis of UML Models Using Aspect-Oriented Modeling Techniques

Abstract. Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) techniques allow software designers to isolate and address separately solutions for crosscutting concerns (such as security, reliability, new functional features, etc.) This paper proposes an approach for analyzing the performance effects of a given aspect on the overall system performance, after the composition of the aspect model with the primary model of a system. Performance analysis of UML models is enabled by the "UML Performance Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time" (SPT) standardized by OMG, which defines a set of quantitative performance annotations to be added to a UML model. The first step of the proposed approach is to add performance annotations to both the primary model and to the aspect model(s). An aspect model is generic at first, and therefore its performance annotations must be parameterized. A generic model will be converted into a context-specific aspect model with concrete values assigned to its perfor...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: UML
• Authors: Hui Shen, Dorina C. Petriu
• Keywords: Model, Natural Language Processing, Performance, Primary Model, UML 2005