Performance/availability modeling with the TANGRAM-II modeling environment

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-65

  Carmo, R M L R ^a,c   De Carvalho, L R ^a   De Souza E Silva, E ^a,d,e   Diniz, M C ^a   Muntz, R R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependability tools; Markov modeling; Performability; Performance tools; Transient analysis

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE TANGRAM II; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0032097256     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-5316(98)00011-x     Document Type: Article

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