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The paper proposes a formal approach to building software performance models for distributed and/or concurrent software systems from a description of the system’s architecture by using graph transformations. The performance model is based on the Layered Queueing Network (LQN) formalism, an extension of the well-known Queueing Network modelling technique [16, 17, 8]. The transformation from the architectural description of a given system to its LQN model is based on PROGRES, a known visual language and environment for programming with graph rewriting systems [9-11]. The transformation result is an LQN model that can be analysed with existent solvers [5].
Research partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and by the Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO).
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Petriu, D.C., Wang, X. (2000). Deriving Software Performance Models from Architectural Patterns by Graph Transformations. In: Ehrig, H., Engels, G., Kreowski, HJ., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Theory and Application of Graph Transformations. TAGT 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1764. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46464-8_33
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