An Architectural Approach for Integrating Performance Evaluation into the Systems Design Process (Invited Paper)
Frank Ball, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Irfan Ullah Awan, Rubem Pereira · 2007
This paper presents work aimed at integrating performance evaluation into the systems design process. It considers the problem of providing a performance evaluation service to system designers that will allow practitioners from different application areas to specify the system in a level of abstraction that is readily understandable in their own particular application area, and then to use this specification to automatically generate a solution for the performance evaluation of that system. It presents the proposal for an Open-Systems-like architectural approach to the problem of providing these services and outlines the research issues that need to be addressed in the development of this architecture.