Performance modeling and evaluation of distributed component-based systems using queueing petri nets

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 486-502

  Kounev, Samuel ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Performance evaluation; Performance modeling and prediction; Software verification

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; SOFTWARE VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETRI NETS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947178828     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.69     Document Type: Article

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