The evolution towards IP-aware access networks creates the possibility (and, indeed, the desirability) of additional network services, like firewalling or NAT, integrated into th...
Tom Verdickt, Wim Van de Meerssche, Koert Vlaeminc...
Designers of distributed systems often rely on replicas for increased robustness, scalability, and performance. Replicated server architectures require some technique to select a ...
Evaluation of non-functional properties of a design (such as performance, dependability, security, etc.) can be enabled by design annotations specific to the property to be evalua...
C. Murray Woodside, Dorina C. Petriu, Dorin Bogdan...
StoCharts have been proposed as a UML statechart extension for performance and dependability evaluation, and have been applied in the context of train radio reliability assessment...
Holger Hermanns, David N. Jansen, Yaroslav S. Usen...
The change of focus from code to models promoted by OMG's Model Driven Development raises the need for verification of nonfunctional characteristics of UML models, such as pe...
Resource pools are computing environments that offer virtualized access to shared resources. When used effectively they can align the use of capacity with business needs (flexi...
Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin F. Arlitt,...
Understanding the characteristics of the users’ workload is an important aspect when designing and providing web services. The majority of current workload characterization tech...
In order to effectively validate the performance of software systems throughout their development cycle it is necessary to continuously build performance models from software mod...
Advances in Internet and the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks have propitiated the rise of Grids. The scheduling of applications is complex in Grids due ...
Recently, growing attention is focused on run-time management of Quality of Service (QoS) of complex software systems. In this context, self-adaptation of applications, based on r...
Mauro Caporuscio, Antinisca Di Marco, Paola Invera...