Rule-based automatic software performance diagnosis and improvement

WOSP'08: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software and Performance 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-12

  Xu, Jing ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Design improvement; Layered Queuing Networks; Performance diagnosis; Rules

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DESIGN AIDS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

BOTTLENECK; DESIGN IMPROVEMENT; LAYERED QUEUING NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS; RULES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 57349140340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1383559.1383561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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