Rule-based automatic software performance diagnosis and improvement

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 585-611

  Xu, Jing ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Design improvement; Layered queuing networks; Performance diagnosis; Rules

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CHANGE; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; DESIGN LEVELS; LAYERED QUEUING; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS; PERFORMANCE MODEL; RULE BASED; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN AIDS; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

DESIGN;

EID: 77955304791     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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