Automatic generation of layered queuing software performance models from commonly available traces

Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP'05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 147-158

  Israr, Tauseef A ^a   Lau, Danny H ^b   Franks, Greg ^b   Woodside, Murray ^b  

^a IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Layered Queuing; Model Building; Performance Engineering; Software performance; Tracing Performance Modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

LAYERED QUEUING; PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; TRACING PERFORMANCE MODELING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33749002849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1071021.1071037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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