Key Documents

• Greg Franks, "Performance Analysis of Distributed Server Systems", Report OCIEE-00-01, Jan. 2000, PhD. thesis, Carleton University. PDF
  

2011

• Bacigalupo, D.A.; van Hemert, J.I.; Chen, X.; Usmani, A.; Chester, A.P.; He, L.; Dillenberger, D.N.; Wills, G.B.; Gilbert, L.; Jarvis, S.A., “Managing dynamic enterprise and urgent workloads on clouds using layered queuing and historical performance models”, Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Volume 19, Number 6, p.1479–1495 (2011) PDF   (LQN and "historical" (regression) prediction for managing request rejection rates in a cloud service (Trade) to give diffserv among user groups.  More...  )
  

• Dengshi Li, Bin Yan, Jun Tao (School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jianghan University. Wuhan, China), “The Analysis of the Basic Model of the Multilayer Client-Server Network”, Proc Int Conf on Network Engineering and Computer Science, (ICNECS 2011), Xi'an, China, September 23-25, 2011, pp 2871-2876  PDF    (A tutorial on lqn)

• Daniel Tertilt, Helmut Krcmar (TU Munich), “Generic Performance Prediction For Erp And Soa Applications”, Proc European Conf on Information Systems (ECIS 2011) PDF   (Descriptive paper on methodology for measure-(model by LQN)-simulate using a tool EPPIC; says applied to SAS ERP system.)

• Reheb A. El-kaedy and Ahmed Sameh, “Performance Analysis and Characterization Tool for Distributed Software Development”, Int J. of Research and Reviews in Computer Science (IJRRCS) Vol. 2, No. 3, June 2011, 906-915. PDF    (QVT for UML/MARTE to LQN transformation, toy example, discussion)

• Reheb A. El-kaedy and Ahmed Sameh, “Integrating Performance Characterization with Software Development”, International Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences Vol: 11 No: 02 p 7-13 (one of the six Int J on Engineering and Science IJENS)   PDF   (MARTE/UML to LQN via their IMPACT tool)

• B.Bharathi, G.Kulanthaivel, “A Tool for Architectural Design Evaluations using Simplistic Approach”, Int Journal on Computer Applications, no 4, 2011, Special Issue on “Computational Science - New Dimensions & Perspectives”, pp 162-165.   PDF  (UML to LQN including a case study.)

• V. Cortellessa, A. Di Marco, P. Inverardi, “Model-Based Software Performance Analysis” Springer, 2011.  (Textbook)

2010

• Presentation: Murray Woodside, "Regression Techniques for Performance Parameter Estimation", Tutorial at the first WOSP/SIPEW Int Conf on Performance Engineering, San Jose, Jan 2010. PPT    (Nonlinear regression to fit parameters of queueing and layered queueing models to match external performance measures, without directly measuring service times and messaging)   
  
• J. Rolia, A. Kalbasi, D. Krishnamurthy, and S. Dawson, "Resource Demand Modeling for Multi-Tier Services," in Proc First Joint WOSP/SIPEW Int. Conf. on Performance Engineering, San Jose, CA, 2010, pp. 207-217.
• M. Tribastone, "Relating Layered Queueing Networks and Process Algebra Models," in First Joint WOSP/SIPEW Int. Conf. on Performance Engineering, San Jose, CA, 2010, pp. 183-194.
• A. Martens, H. Koziolek, S. Becker, and R. Reussner, "Automatically Improve Software Architecture Models for Performance, Reliability, and Cost Using Evolutionary Algorithms," in Proc First Joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering, San Jose, CA, 2010, pp. 105-117. 

• David A. Bacigalupo, Jano van Hemert, Asif Usmani, Donna N. Dillenberger, Gary B. Wills and Stephen A. Jarvis, “Resource Management of Enterprise Cloud Systems Using Layered Queuing and Historical Performance Models”, Proc PMEO10, in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing, Workshops (IPDPSW), 2010, Atlanta, GA, 19-23 April 2010, pp 1 - 8    PDF   (Tuning a load-rejection controller for cloud application management, using two kinds of models (LQN and regression). Tuning uses search on model results. Includes model parameterization. LQN needs less data and less expertise, but takes longer to compute.)

• Alessio Gambi, Giovanni Toffetti, and Sara Comai, “Model-Driven Web Engineering Performance Prediction With Layered Queue Networks”, Proc ICWE'10 10th int conf on Current trends in web engineering, volume 6385 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 25-36. Springer, (2010) pp 25-26    PDF  (MDE. From UML for Web Engineering, to LQN. WebRatio environment considered. Example “Acme” of catalogue for a furniture company.)

• Xu Zhang, Chung-Horng Lung, Greg Franks, “Towards Architecture-based Autonomic Software Performance Engineering”, Proc CAL 2010 Conference sur les Architectures Logicielles, Pau, France, March 9–10 2010. (Use an LQN model to guide selection of a threading architecture.) NO FILE

  2009

• J. Rolia, G. Casale, D. Krishnamurthy, S. Dawson, S. Kraft. "Predictive modelling of SAP ERP applications: Challenges and solutions". Proc. of the Workshop on Run-time Models for Self-managing Systems and Applications (ROSSA 09), Pisa, Oct 2009. PDF  (A LQ case study)
  
• M. Mroz and G. Franks, "A Performance Experiment System Supporting Fast Mapping of System Issues," in Proc. Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (Valuetools2009), Pisa, Oct. 2009.   PDF   (The LQX experiment language that was built into the LQNS solver to provide rapid execution of multiple solutions with different parameters)
  
• L. Li and G. Franks, "Performance Modeling of Systems using Fair Share Scheduling with Layered Queueing Networks," in MASCOTS 2009, London, Sept. 2009, pp. 1 - 10.
• B109 Jim (Zhanwen) Li, John Chinneck, Murray Woodside,Marin Litoiu, "Deployment of Services in a Cloud Subject to Memory and License Constraints", Proc IEEE 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD-II 2009), Sept 2009, Bangalore.
  
• B108 Jim (Zhanwen) Li, John Chinneck, Murray Woodside,Marin Litoiu, "Fast Scalable Optimization to Configure Service Systems having Cost and Quality of Service Constraints", Proc 6th Int. Conf. on Autonomic Computing and Communications, Barcelona, June 2009, pp. 159-168.   (Linear programming optimization of deployment, extended by a nonlinear contention model (LQN))
  
• Pengfei Wu, "A Performance Model for Network of Prototype Software Routers". MASc thesis, July 2003.   PDF  (An example of template-based construction of a com;lex LQ model)
  
• Xiuping Wu, "An Approach to Predicting Performance for Component-based Systems", MASc thesis, July 2003.   PDF   (The CBML language for putting LQ components into slots in a LQ model)
  
• Jun Feng, "Scalability and Performance of Distributed Feature Composition", MSc thesis, June 2003.
  
• Peter Tregunno, "Practical Analysis of Software Bottlenecks", MASc thesis May 2003,   PDF   (Simplified bottleneck analysis, with a case study of voice-over-packet switch)
  
• Helen (Huai) Liu, "Multilevel Performance Analysis of Scenario Specification for a Presence System", MSc thesis October 2002   PDF  (A case study of LQ modeling of a publish-subscribe system)  
  
• S.H. Houmb, G. Georg, D.C. Petriu, B. Bordbar, I. Ray, K. Anastasakis, and R.B. France, "Balancing Security and Performance Properties During System Architectural Design", book chapter in Software Engineering for Secure Systems: Industrial and Research Perspectives, H.Mouratidis (Ed)., to be published by IGI Global, 2009.

• Aditya Thatte, “PerfCenter Tutorial : Predicting Response Times of a simple HelloWorld Web Service for increasing loads” April 30, 2009 PDF

• Yan Qiang;   Yi Li;   Junjie Chen (Coll. of Comput. & Software, Taiyuan Univ. of Technol., Taiyuan), “The Workload Adaptation in Autonomic DBMSs Based on Layered Queuing Network Model”, Second Int Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining WKDD 2009, Moscow, 23-25 Jan. 2009, pp 781 - 785  PDF     (Successful use of a lq model in exercising control over db workload)
• J. Lakshmi, S.K. Nandy, (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), “Modeling Architecture-OS Interactions using Layered Queuing Network Models”, Proc HPC-Asia, March 2009    PDF  (LQN model of virtualization overhead for communications )
• Stephan Gradl, André Bögelsack, Holger Wittges, Helmut Krcmar, “Layered Queuing Networks for Simulating Enterprise Resource Planning Systems” Proc MSVVEIS'2009, pp.85~92   PDF   (Simple ERP example and model including verification on small system.)
• Bojan Cukic (West Virginia University), “Understanding Risk –Performance Trade-off at Point of Entry Systems”, Presentation, March 2009    PDF (Performance of a digital passport system for border security)
• Huafang Tan, Ratakonda Krishna C., Jun Zhu, Hui Su, “Service Composition Performance Predication”, Computer Systems & Applications, 2009-06   PDF
• Kaustubh Joshi and Matti Hiltunen, Gueyoung Jung, “Performance Aware Regeneration in Virtualized Multitier Applications”, Proc. DSN Workshop on Proactive Failure Avoidance, Recovery and Maintenance (PFARM), Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29th, 2009  PDF  

2008

• Tao Zheng, Murray Woodside, Marin Litoiu, "Performance Model Estimation and Tracking using Optimal Filters", IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, V 34 , no. 3 (May 2008) pp 391-406. PDF   Local-files   (The full story on Kalman filter estimators for LQN parameter tracking) 
  
• R. Tawhid, D.C.Petriu, "Integrating Performance Analysis in the Model Driven Development of Software Product Line", in Proc. of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS'2008), LNCS Vol. 5301 (K. Czarnecki, editor), pp. 490-504, Springer, 2008. (pre-publication version) .
• R. Tawhid, D.C.Petriu, "Towards Automatic Derivation of a Product Performance Model from a UML Software Product Line Model", Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP'2008, Princeton, NJ, June 23-26, 2008. (pre-publication version) .
• J. Xu, "Rule-based Automatic Software Performance Diagnosis and Improvement," in Proc. Seventh ACM Int. Workshop on Software and Performance, Princeton NJ, 2008, pp. 1 - 12.
• A. Deshpande, V. Apte, and S. Marathe, "PerfCenter: A Performance Modeling Tool for Application Hosting Centers," in Proc. Seventh International Workshop on Software and Performance, Princeton, NJ, June 2008, pp. 79-90.

• Ahmad A. Saifan, Jürgen Dingel. A Survey of Using Model-Based Testing to Improve Quality Attributes in Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of SCSS (2)'2008. pp.283~288  

• Mohammad Ferdous Alam (Arizona State University), “Queuing networks with resource locking - Modeling, performance evaluation and capacity management”, Thesis, Arizona State University, 2008 - 166 pages

• Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Jerry Rolia, Min Xu, “WAM – The Weighted Average Method for Predicting the Performance of Systems with Bursts of Customer Sessions”, Report HPL-2008-66, HP Laboratories, 2008   PDF  

• Ali I. El-Desouky, Hesham A. Ali, Yousry M. Abdul-Azeem (Mansoura University, Egypt), “LQN-Based Performance Evaluation Framework of UML-Based Models for Distributed Object Applications”, Proc 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, Cairo, 27-29 March 2008   PDF  (QVT transformation from UML to UML and UML to LQN)
  

2007

• D.C. Petriu, H. Shen, A. Sabetta, "Performance Analysis of Aspect-Oriented UML Models", Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM), Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 453-471, Dec. 2007.
• Murray Woodside, "Resource Architecture and Continuous Performance Engineering", invited keynote in Proc. Third International Conference on the Quality of Software-Architectures (QOSA 2007), in "Software Architectures, Components, and Applications, Third International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, Revised Selected Papers". LNCS 4880 Springer 2008 PDF   Local-files
• Tariq Omari, Salem Derisavi, Greg Franks, Murray Woodside, "Performance Modeling of a Quorum Pattern in Layered Service Systems", Proc 4th Int. Conf. on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST2007), Edinburgh, Sept. 2007.
  
• Murray Woodside, "From Annotated Software Designs (UML SPT/MARTE) to Model Formalisms", in "SFM 2007", eds M. Bernardo and J. Hillston, LNCS 4486, pp. 429 - 467, Springer, Berlin, 2007
• Presentation: From Annotated Software Designs (SPT/MARTE) to Performance Model Formalisms", Murray Woodside, presentation to the Summer School on Formal Methods 2007: Performance Evaluation, Bertinoro Italy, May 27 - June 2, 2007.  PDF
• D. C. Petriu, C. M. Woodside, D. B. Petriu, J. Xu, T. Israr, G. Georg, R. France, J. M. Bieman, S. H. Houmb, J. Jurjens, "Performance Analysis of Security Aspects in UML Models", Proc. 6th ACM Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP07), Buenos Aires, Feb 2007, pp 91-102.
• A. D’Ambrogio and P. Bocciarell, "A Model-driven Approach to Describe and Predict the
  Performance of Composite Services," in Proc. Sixth Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 07), Buenos Aires, pp. 78-89.
• T. Omari, S. Derisavi, and G. Franks, "Deriving Distribution of Thread Service Time in Layered Queueing Networks," in Proc. Sixth Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 07), Buenos Aires, Feb 2007, pp. 66-77.
• T. Verdickt, B. Dhoedt, F. D. Turck, and P. Demeester, "Hybrid Performance Modeling Approach for Network
  Intensive Distributed Software," in Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software and performance (WOSP'07), Buenos Aires, 2007, pp. 189-200.
• Tauseef Israr, Murray Woodside, Greg Franks, "Interaction tree algorithms to extract effective architecture and layered performance models from traces", Journal of Systems and Software, v 80 n 4, April 2007, pp 474-492. PDF   Local-files
• T. Omari, G. Franks, M. Woodside, A. Pan, "Efficient performance models for layered server systems with replicated servers and parallel behavior", Journal of Systems and Software, v 80, no 4, April 2007, pp 510-527. PDF   Local-files

• Bacigalupo, D.A.;   Xue, J.W.J.;   Hammond, S.D.;   Jarvis, S.A.;   Dillenberger, D.N.;   Nudd, G.R., “Predicting the Effect on Performance of Container-Managed Persistence in a Distributed Enterprise Application”, IEEE Int Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), 26-30 March 2007 pp 1 - 8 Long Beach, CA  IEEE FILE

• Antinisca Di Marco, Cecilia Mascolo, “Performance Analysis and Prediction of Physically Mobile Systems”, Proc WOSP 2007

2006

• G. Franks, D. Petriu, M. Woodside, J. Xu, P. Tregunno, "Layered bottlenecks and their mitigation", Proc of 3rd Int. Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems QEST'2006, pp. 103-114, Riverside, CA, USA, Sept. 2006. PDF   Local-files
• Presentation: "Performance Model Estimation and Tracking using a Kalman Filter", by Murray Woodside1, Tao Zheng, Marin Litoiu, a tutorial to ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP WG7.3 Performance 2006, June 27, 2006, St. Malo.   PDF
• G. Franks, M. Woodside, J. Rolia, “Multi-threaded Servers with High Service Time Variation for Layered Queueing Networks”, in "Computer System Performance Modeling in Perspective: A Tribute to the Work of Prof Kenneth C Sevcik", ed. Erol Gelenbe, World Scientific Publishing, 2006
• N. Tiwari and P. Mynampati. Experiences of using LQN and QPN tools for performance modeling of a J2EE application. In Proc. of Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Conference, pages 537–548, 2006.
• D.C. Petriu, A. Sabetta, "From UML to Performance Analysis Models by Abstraction-raising Transformation", In From MDD Concepts to Experiments and Illustrations, (eds. J.P. Babau, J. Champeau, S. Gerard), ISTE Ltd., pp.53-70, 2006.
• A. Ufimtsev and L. Murphy (Performance Engineering Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin), “Performance Modeling of a JavaEE Component Application using Layered Queuing Networks: Revised Approach and a Case Study), Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems (SAVCBS'06) Workshop at ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE-14, Portland, OR, USA, November 10-11, 2006   PDF    LQN model of a “manufacturing system” in JBoss, with calibration. Some limitations. LQN is optimistic.
• Paola Bracchi, “A Methodology for Software Performance Modeling and its Application to a Border Inspection System”, Master’s thesis, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University, 2006   PDF

2005

• D.C. Petriu, "Performance Analysis with the SPT Profile", (PDF) , in Model-Driven Engineering for Distributed and Embedded Systems, (S. Gerard, J.P. Babeau, J. Champeau, Eds), pp. 205-224, Hermes Science Publishing Ltd., London, England, 2005.
• Jing Xu, Murray Woodside, “Template Driven Performance Modeling of Enterprise Java Beans”, Proc. 2005 Middleware for Web Services Workshop (at EDOC 05), Sept. 2005, Enschede, Netherlands. PDF   Local-files
• Jing Xu, A. Oufimtsev, M. Woodside, L. Murphy, “Performance Modeling and Prediction of Enterprise JavaBeans with Layered Queuing Network Templates”, Proc. Workshop on Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems (SAVCBS 05) (at ESEC/FSE 05), Lisbon, Sept 5-6, 2005. PDF   Local-files
• P. Wu, M. Woodside, “An Aggregation Approach to Constructing Hybrid Layered Queueing Models”, Proc PMCCS7, Torino, Italy, Sept. 2005. PDF   Local-files
• M. Woodside, “A Composable Performance Model for Service/Resource Systems”, Proc 7th Workshop on Performability Modelling of Computer and Communications Systems (PMCCS7), Torino, Italy, Sept 2005, pp 89-92. PDF   Local-files
• T. Zheng, J. Yang, M. Woodside, M. Litoiu, G. Iszlai, “Tracking Time-Varying Parameters in Software Systems with Ex-tended Kalman Filters”, Proc CASCON 2005, Toronto, Oct. 2005. PDF   Local-files
• M. Woodside, T. Zheng, M. Litoiu, "The use of optimal filters to track parameters of performance models";, Proc. 2nd Int Conf on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST05);, Torino, Italy, Sept. 05. PDF   Local-files
• Tariq Omari, Greg Franks, Murray Woodside, Amy Pan, "Solving Layered Queueing Networks of Large Client-Server Systems with Symmetric Replication", Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2005), pp 159-166, July 2005. PDF  Local-files
• M. Woodside, D. C. Petriu, D. B. Petriu, H. Shen, T. Israr, J. Merseguer, “Performance by Unified Model Analysis (PUMA)”,  Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2005), pp 1-12, July 2005. PDF  Local-files
• G. P. Gu and D. C. Petriu, "From UML to LQN by XML algebra-based model transformations," in Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 05), July 2005, pp. 99-110.
• A. D’Ambrogio, "A Model Transformation Framework for the Automated Building of Performance Models from UML Models," in Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 05), Palma de Mallorca, July 2005, pp. 75-86.
• Tauseef A. Israr, Danny H. Lau, Greg Franks, Murray Woodside, “Automatic Generation of Layered Queuing Software Performance Models from Commonly Available Traces”, Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2005), pp 147-158, July 2005 . PDF  Local-files
• Tao Zheng, Murray Woodside, “Fast Estimation of Probabilities of Soft Deadline Misses in Layered Software Performance Models”, Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2005), pp 1181-186, July 2005. PDF   Local-files
• Gordon Ping Gu, Dorina C. Petriu, "From UML to LQN by XML algebra-based model transformation", (PDF) Proc. of 5th ACM Workshop on Software and Performance WOSP'2005, pp.99-110, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 11-14, 2005.
• Nikhil Barthwal, Murray Woodside, “Efficient Evaluation of Alternatives for Assembly of Services”, Proc. 4th Int. Workshop  on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS'05), IPDPS Denver, April 2005.
  PDF   Local-files
• Dorin Bogdan Petriu, Murray Woodside, "Software performance models from system scenarios", Performance Evaluation, v 61 issue 1 pp 65-89 2005. PDF 
  

• K. Kim, I. Ra and C. Kim, “Software Architectural Performance Estimations Using

  Layered Queuing Model for Very Large Scale Clustered Workflow Architectures”,

  J. of Electronics and Computer Science, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 57—65, 2005.   GETFILE

• Farooq, U.  Siddiqui, K.I. , “Scalability analysis of multi-tier distributed software patterns using layered queuing networks”, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2005, Saskatoon, pp 1025 - 1028    IEEE

• Mariela Curiel, M. Angelica Perez, Ricardo Gonzalez, “Applying SPE Techniques for Modeling a Grid-enabled JAVA Platform”, Proc WOSP 2005     PDF   LQN from Use Case Maps, purpose to study scheduling

• D.A. Bacigalupo, S.A. Jarvis, L. He, D.P. Spooner, D. Pelych, G.R. Nudd, “A Comparative Evaluation of Two Techniques for Predicting the Performance of Dynamic Enterprise Systems”, in: Parallel Computing: Current & Future Issues of High-End Computing, Proceedings of the International Conference ParCo 2005,

  John von Neumann Institute for Computing, J¨ulich, NIC Series, Vol. 33, ISBN 3-00-017352-8, pp. 163-170, 2006   PDF     

• W. van der Weij and R.D. van der Mei, “Stability and Throughput in a Two-Layered Network of Multi-Server Queues”, Proc of Third Int Working Conference On Performance Modelling And Evaluation Of Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs’05), Ilkley, U.K, 18th - 20th July, 2005    PDF   Two servers visited in tandem (some open arrivals and some cycling jobs),  sharing a processor. Stability = overload avoidance. A layered system.

• W. van der Weij, R.D. van der Mei, B.M.M. Gijsen, F. Phillipson (CWI, Advanced Communication Networks, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), “Optimal Server Assignment in a Two-layered Tandem of Multi-Server Queues”, Proc of Third Int Working Conference On Performance Modelling And Evaluation Of Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs’05), Ilkley, U.K, 18th - 20th July, 2005   PDF   Thread-pool optimization by three heuristics for general service time distributions

• David A. Bacigalupo, Stephen A. Jarvis, Ligang He, Daniel P. Spooner and Graham R. Nudd, “Comparing Layered Queuing And Historical Performance Models Of A Distributed Enterprise Application”, Proc Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks'2005. pp.608~613   PDF  Compares historical (regression) method vs LQN on predicting... advantage to lqn of not needing to be calibrated at all loads.

• Sofie Van Hoecke , Tom Verdickt , Bart Dhoedt , Frank Gielen , Piet Demeester, “Modelling the performance of the Web Service platform using Layered Queuing Networks”, Proc 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP’05), Las Vegas   PDF   LQN for web service middleware.

• T. Verdickt W. Van de Meerssche K. Vlaeminck, "Modeling the performance of a NAT/firewall network service for the IXP2400", Proc fifth Int Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP'05, Palma, Illes Balears, Spain, 12-14 July 2005

• T. Verdickt B. Dhoedt F. Gielen P. Demeester, "Automatic inclusion of middleware performance attributes into architectural UML software models", published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, August 2005, Vol. 31, Issue 8   PDF   (CORBA middleware is automatically added to a UML model with SPT annotations and then a LQ model is generated by further automation).
  

2004

• Greg Franks and Murray Woodside, "Multiclass Multiservers with Deferred Operations in Layered Queueing Networks, with Software System Applications", Proc 12th IEEE / ACM Int. Symp. on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Amsterdam, Oct. 2004.    (local-access)
• Pengfei Wu, Murray Woodside, and Chung-Horng Lung, "Compositional Layered Performance Modeling of Peer-to-Peer Routing Software," in Proc 23rd International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, Phoenix, Ariz., April 2004     (local-access)
• Olivia Das, Murray Woodside, "Dependability Modeling of Self-Healing Client-Server Applications", in "Architecting Dependable Systems II", Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 3069, eds R. deLemos, C. Gacek, A. Romanovsky, pp , Dec 2004.  PDF   (local-access) <>
• Olivia Das, C. M. Woodside, "Analyzing the Effectiveness of fault-management architectures in layered distributed systems", Performance Evaluation, v 56 pp 93 - 120, Mar. 2004.
  
• Olivia Das and Murray Woodside, "Computing the Performability of Layered Distributed Systems with a Management Architecture," in Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 04), Redwood Shores, Calif., Jan 2004, pp. 174 - 185   PDF   (local-access) <>
• Xiuping Wu and Murray Woodside, "Performance Modeling from Software Components," in Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 04), Redwood Shores, Calif., Jan 2004, pp. 290-301.  PDF     (local-access) <>
• Marin Litoiu, “Migrating to Web services: a performance engineering approach”, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Volume 16, Issue 1-2, pages 51–70, January - April 2004   PDF   Use models to understand latency and scalability; generic WS example with SOAP client.

• Dorina C. Petriu, Gordon Gu, Hui Shen and Jinhua Zhang, “Mapping UML models to LQN performance models”, Proc UML 2004     PDF  Ad hoc mapping rules for UML+SPT to LQN, with Document Exchange System example

• David A. Bacigalupo, Stephen A. Jarvis, Ligang He and Graham R. Nudd, “An Investigation into the Application of Different Performance Prediction Techniques to e-Commerce Applications”, Proc 18th Int Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 26-30 April 2004, pp 248-255   PDF

• Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Polini, and Wolfgang Emmerich, “Performance Testing of Distributed Component Architectures”, in S. Beydeda and V. Gruhn (Eds). “Building Quality into COTS Components – Testing and Debugging”, pp 294--314, Springer, 2004   PDF   Includes a small lqn example with testing ideas.

• David A. Bacigalupo, Stephen A. Jarvis, Ligang He, Daniel P. Spooner, Donna N. Dillenberger, Graham R. Nudd, “An Investigation into the Application of Different Performance Prediction Methods to Distributed Enterprise Applications”, Journal of Supercomputing V 34 Issue 2, Nov 2005   Compares “historical” method (regression with a tool HYDRA) to LQN, for prediction and for experience with tuning. LQ has difficulty with cache size.   ????bacigalupo-compare-report-04.pdf

• T. Verdickt B. Dhoedt F. Gielen, "Incorporating SPE into MDA: including middleware performance details into system models", published in WOSP 2004, 4th Workshop on Software and Performance, ISBN 1-58113-673-0, California, 14-16 January 2004

2003

• Olivia Das, C. Murray Woodside, The Influence of Layered Systems Structure on Strategies for Software Rejuvenation", (extended abstract), Proc. PMCCS-6 (Sixth Int Workshop on Performability Modelihng of Computer and Communications Systems), Monticello, Illinois, USA, Sept 5-7, 2003, pp 47 - 50.   PDF     (local-access)
• Olivia Das and C. Murray Woodside, "Dependable-LQNS: A Performability Modeling Tool for Layered Systems", a tool presentation at the 13th Int Conf. on Computer Performance Evaluation, Modelling Techniques and Tools (TOOLS 2003), Urbana, Illinois, USA, Sept 2003.  PDF  (local-access)
  
• Tao Zheng, Murray Woodside, "Heuristic Optimization of Scheduling and Allocation for Distributed Systems with Soft Deadlines",  Proc. 13th Int Conf. on Computer Performance Evaluation, Modelling Techniques and Tools (TOOLS 2003), Urbana, Illinois, USA, Sept 2003, pp 169-181, vol. LNCS 2794, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2003.  PDF    (local-access)<>
• Presentation: "Layered Resources, Layered Queues and Software Bottlenecks", a tutorial presented to the 2003 Illinois Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems, Sept 2, 2003.   PDF
• Jing Xu, Murray Woodside, Dorina Petriu "Performance Analysis of a Software Design using the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance and Time", Proc. 13th Int Conf. on Computer Performance Evaluation, Modelling Techniques and Tools (TOOLS 2003), Urbana, Illinois, USA, Sept 2003, pp 291 - 310, vol. LNCS 2794, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2003.   PDF   (local-access)
• D. C. Petriu and C. M. Woodside, "Performance Analysis with UML," in the volume "UML for Real", edited by B. Selic, L. Lavagno, and G. Martin, . Kluwer, 2003, pp. 221-240   (local-access)
  
• Olivia Das, Murray Woodside, "Evaluation of Dependable Layered Systems with Fault Management Architecture", Proc. Workshop on Software Architectures for Dependable Systems, part of the Int Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2003), Portland, Oregon, May 3, 2003.  PDF    (local-access) 
• Xiuping Wu, David McMullan, Murray Woodside, "Component Based Performance Prediction", Proc CBSE6 - 6th Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering Automated Reasoning and Prediction Saturday, part of the Int Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2003), Portland, Oregon, May 3- 4, 2003.  PDF   (local-access)
• D.B. Petriu, D. Amyot, C. M. Woodside, "Scenario-Based Performance Engineering with UCMNav", report SCE-03-07, Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Feb. 2003.... a later version was published in Proc 11th Int. SDL Forum (SDL 2003), Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol LNCS 2708,  pp 18 - 35.   PDF    (local-access) 
• Presentation: "Understanding Performance Aspects of Layered Software with Layered Resources", slides for a presentation at North Carolina State University and the Triangle Universities, Jan 27, 2003 PDF
• D. Menasce, "Two-Level Iterative Queueing Model of Software Contention," in Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2002), Fort Worth, TX, 2002, pp. 267-280. An especially simple model for just two layers.
• Tom Verdickt, Bart Dhoedt, Frank Gielen, Piet Demeester (Department of information technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium), “Modelling the performance of CORBA using Layered Queueing Networks”, Proc 29th Conference on EUROMICRO, 2003    PDF      (Validated model of a small lab system on ORBacus)

2002

• D.B. Petriu and C. M. Woodside, "Software Performance Models from System Scenarios", report SCE-03-06, Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Oct. 2002. PDF (local-access) 
• Tao Zheng, "Optimization of Distributed Real-Time Systems with Scenario Deadlines", MASc thesis, Carleton University, Aug 2002 PDF
• Dorin Petriu, Murray Woodside, "Analysing Software Requirements Specifications for Performance", Proc. Third Int. Workshop on Software and Performance, Rome, July 2002.  PDF(local-access) 
• Gordon Gu and D. C. Petriu, "XSLT Transformation from UML Models to LQN Performance Models", Proc. of 3rd Int. Workshop on Software and Performance WOSP'2002, pp.227-234, Rome, Italy, July 2002.
• Olivia Das, Murray Woodside, "Modeling the Coverage and Effectiveness of Fault-Management Architectures in Layered Distributed Systems", Proc Int. Conf on Dependable Systems and Networks, Washington, June 2002, pp 745-754. PDF (local-access) 
• Dorin Petriu, Murray Woodside, "Software Performance Models from System Scenarios in Use Case Maps", Proc. 12 Int. Conf. on Modelling Tools and Techniques for Computer and Communication System Performance Evaluation (Performance TOOLS 2002), London, April 2002. PDF (local-access) 
• D.C.Petriu, H.Shen, "Applying the UML Performance Profile: Graph Grammar based derivation of LQN models from UML specifications", (pdf) in Computer Performance Evaluation - Modelling Techniques and Tools, (Tony Fields, Peter Harrison, Jeremy Bradley, Uli Harder, Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2324, pp.159-177, Springer Verlag, 2002.
• D. Menasce, "Two-Level Iterative Queueing Model of Software Contention," in Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2002), Fort Worth, TX, 2002, pp. 267-280.
• M. Litoiu, D. Krishnamurthy, J. Rolia, “Performance stress vectors and capacity planning for e-commerce applications”, Int J Digit Libr (2002) 3: 309–315    PDF  Combine LQM and LP to find workloads that exercise a range of  bottlenecks, applied to a web-based shopping mall example. Shows bottleneck shift.

• Murray Woodside, “An Overview of Layered Performance Modelling”, Tutorial Presentation May 2002   PDF

• Khalid H. Siddiqui, C. M. Woodside, “Performance Aware Software Development (PASD) Using Resource Demand Budgets”,  PDF     Expansion of a poster paper presented at WOSP 2002, 18 pp

2001

• Olivia Das, Murray Woodside, "Failure Detection and Recovery Modelling for Multi-layered Service Systems", Proc PMCCS5, Aachen, Sept 2001. PDF
• Olivia Das, M. Woodside, "Evaluating Layered Distributed Software Systems with Fault Tolerant Features", Performance Evaluation, v 45, issue 1, May 2001, pp 57 - 76.
• D. Petriu, C. M. Woodside, ", "Evaluating the Performance of Software Architectures", Proc MICON 2001, Ottawa, Aug. 23,24, 2001.   PDF
• M. Woodside, C. Hrischuk, B. Selic, S. Bayarov, "Automated performance modeling of software generated by a design environment", Performance Evaluation, v 45, pp 107 - 124, July 2001.
• Dorin Petriu, Layered Software Performance Models Constructed from Use Case Map Specifications", M. Eng thesis May, 2001   PDF
• D. Petriu, M. Woodside, "Incorporating Performance Analysis in the Early Stages of Software Development Using Generative Programming Principles", Third Workshop on Generative Programming, ECOOP 2001, June 2001. PDF
• Murray Woodside, "Software Resource Architecture", Int. Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE),  v 11, no 4, pp 407-429, 2001. Preliminary Version: PDF
• H. E. El-Sayed, Don Cameron, C. M. Woodside, "Automation Support for Software Performance Engineering", Proc Joint Int. Conf on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics 2001/Performance 2001), Cambridge, MA, June 16 - 20, 2001, ACM order no. 488010, pp 301-311.   PDF for a version with some corrections
• C. M. Woodside, "Software Resource Architecture and Performance Evaluation of Software Architectures", Proc 34th Hawaii Int. Conf. on Systems Sciences, Jan 2001.  Postscript   PDF
• Kim K-H.; Ellis C.A., “Performance Analytic Models and Analyses for Workflow Architectures”, Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 3, Number 3, September 2001 , pp. 339-355(17), Springer
• M. Woodside, "Scalability metrics and analysis of mobile agent systems, in "Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agents, and Scaleable Multi-Agent Systems", ed. O. Rana, v. 1887 of LNCS, pages 234-245. Springer-Verlag, 2001   PDF 

2000

• D.C.Petriu, C.Shousha, A.Jalnapurkar, "Architecture-Based Performance Analysis Applied to a Telecommunication System", (ps.gz) I.E.E.E. Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.26, No.11, pp. 1049-1065, Nov. 2000.
• S. Ramesh and H. G. Perros, "A Multilayer Client-Server Queueing Network Model with Synchronous and Asynchronous Messages," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 26, no. 11 pp. 1086-1100, 2000.
• Prasad Jogalekar, Murray Woodside, "Evaluating the Scalability of Distributed Systems", IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v 11 n 6 pp 589-603, June 2000. Postscript PDF
• Murray Woodside, "Software Performance Evaluation by Models", article in "Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions:, eds Günter Haring, Christoph Lindemann, Martin Reiser, Springer Verlag, LNCS No 1769, 2000.
• M. Litoiu, J. Rolia, and G. Serazzi, "Designing Process Replication and Activation, a Quantitative Approach," IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, vol. 26, no. 12 pp. 1168-1178, 2000.
• D.C. Petriu, X. Wang "Deriving Software Performance Models from Architectural Patterns by Graph Transformations", (ps.gz) in Theory and Applications of Graph Transformations, TAGT'98 (H.Ehrig, G.Engels, H.J. Kreowski, G. Rozenberg, Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.1764, pp.475-488, Springer, 2000.
• D.C. Petriu, X. Wang, "From UML description of high-level software architecture to LQN performance models", (pdf.gz) in "Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance AGTIVE'99" (eds. M.Nagl, A. Schuerr, M. Muench), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.1779, pp. 47-62, Springer, 2000.
• D.C. Petriu, H. Amer, S. Majumdar, I. Abdul-Fatah, "Using Analytic Models for Predicting Middleware performance", (pdf.gz) Proc. of the 2nd ACM Int. Workshop on Software and Performance WOSP'2000, pp. 189-194, Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 2000.
  
• P. Maly, C.M. Woodside, "Layered Modeling of Hardware and Software, with Application to a LAN Extension Router", Proc 11th Int Conf on Computer Performance Evaluation Techniques and Tools (TOOLS 2000), Chicago, March 2000, pp 10-24. PostscriptPDF
• M. Litoiu and J. A. Rolia, "Object Allocation for Distributed Applications with Complex Workloads," in Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Computer Performance Evaluation, Techniques and Tools (Tools 2000), also LNCS 1786, Schaumberg, IL, Mar. 2000, pp. 25-39.

• Pekka Kähkipuro, “Performance Modeling Framework for CORBA Based Distributed Systems”, PhD thesis,  Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, August 2000   PDF

• D. Menasce, V. Almeida, Sec 3.1 of “Performance of Client-Server Systems”, in “Performance evaluation: origins and directions”, (G. Haring, C. Lindemann, M.Reiser, eds)  Springer LNCS v 1769, 2000    (a small LQ example in this section)

1999

• R. G. Franks, C. M. Woodside, "Effectiveness of Early Replies in Client-Server Systems", Performance Evaluation, v 36-37, pp 165 - 184, 1999, (this is also the proceedings of Performance 99, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 99). PostscriptPDF
• C.E. Hrischuk, C.M. Woodside, J.A. Rolia, "Trace-Based Load Characterization for Generating Software Performance Models, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, v 25, n 1, pp 122-135, Jan. 1999.   Postscript
• Hesham El-Sayed, "A Framework For Automated Performance Engineering of Distributed Real-Time Systems", Oct. 1999, PhD thesis, Carleton University. PDF
• P. Kahkipuro, "UML Based Performance Modeling Framework for Object Oriented Systems," in UML99, The Unified Modeling Language, Beyond the Standard, LNCS 1723, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999, pp. 356-371.  (An independent development of a layered queueing model and solver)
  
• T. Kurasugi and I. Kino, "Approximation methods for two-layer queueing models," Performance Evaluation, vol. 36-37, pp. 55-70, August 1999.  (An independent development of a layered queueing model)
  

1998

• Hesham El-Sayed, Donald Cameron, Murray Woodside, "Automated Performance Modeling from Scenarios and SDL Designs of Distributed Systems", Proc. Int. Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE98), Kyoto, April 1998   PDF      (A syntax transformer from SDL software models to LQN performance models)
  
• D.C. Petriu, X. Wang "Deriving Software Performance Models from Architectural Patterns by Graph Transformations", The 6-th International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Graph Transformations TAGT'98, (ps.gz) pp. 340-347, Paderborn, Germany, November 1998.
• S. Ramesh and H. G. Perros, "A Multi-Layer Client-Server Queueing Network Model with Synchronous and Asynchronous Messages," in Proc. of First International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP98), October 1998, pp. 107-119.
• C. Shousha, D.C. Petriu, A. Jalnapurkar, K. Ngo, "Applying Performance Modelling to a Telecommunication System", Proc. of the First Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP'98) , (ps) pp. 1-6, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1998.
• Greg Franks, Murray Woodside, "Performance of Multi-level Client-Server Systems with Parallel Service Operations", Proc. First Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP98), pp. 120-130, Santa Fe, October 1998. (PostScript)
• Murray Woodside, Curtis Hrischuk, Bran Selic, Stefan Bayarov, "A Wideband Approach to Intergrating Performance Prediction into a Software Design Environment", Proc. First Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP98), pp. 31-41, October 1998. (PostScript)
• Olivia Das, Murray Woodside, "The Fault-Tolerant Layered Queueing Network Model for Performability of Distributed Systems", Proc. Int. Performance and Dependability Symposium (IPDS), Durham, NC, September 1998, pp 132-141. (PostScript)
• M. Litoiu, J. Rolia, and G. Serrazzi, "Designing Process Replication and Threading Policies: a Quantitative Approach," in Proc. Performance Tools 98, Palma de Mallorca, 1998, pp. 15-26.
• J. Dilley, R. Friedrich, T. Jin, and J. Rolia, "Web Server Performance measurement and modeling techniques," Performance Evaluation, vol. 33, pp. 5-26, 1998.

1997

• F. Sheikh and C.M. Woodside, "Layered Analytic Performance Modelling of a Distributed Database System", Proc. 1997 International Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1997, pp. 482-490. ( PostScript)
• G. Somadder, D.C. Petriu, "A Pattern Language for Improving the Capacity of Layered Client/Server Systems with Multi-Threaded Servers", (pdf) Proc. of European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming (EuroPLoP'97), pp. 179-189, Irsee, Germany, July 10-12, 1997.
• J. Dilley, R. Friedrich, T. Jin, and J. A. Rolia, "Measurement Tools and Modeling Techniques for Evaluating Web Server Performance," in Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Modelling Techniques and Tools, St. Malo, France, June 1997.

1996

• R.G. Franks, S. Majumdar, J.E. Neilson, D.C. Petriu, J.A. Rolia and C.M. Woodside, "Performance Analysis of Distributed Server Systems", Proc. Sixth International Conference on Software Quality, Ottawa, Canada, October 28-30, 1996, pp. 15-26. (PostScript)
• C.M. Woodside, "Performability Modelling for Multi-Layered Service Systems", Third Int. Workshop on Performability of Computer and Communications Systems, Bloomingdale, Illinois, USA, Sept. 7-8, 1996. (PostScript)
• C.M. Woodside and C. Schramm, "Scalability and Performance Experiments using Synthetic Distributed Server Systems", Distributed Systems Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 2-8, 1996. (PostScript)
• Amy Pan, Solving Stochastic Rendezvous Networks of Large Client-Server Systems with Symmetric Replication, M.Eng thesis, 1996 PDF

1995

• C. Hrischuk, J. Rolia and C.M. Woodside, "Automatic Generation of a Software Performance Model Using an Object-Oriented Prototype", Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, pp. 399-409, Durham, NC, January 1995. (PostScript)   (A trace-based model generation method for LQNs using "angio tracing" to trace causality; the first paper in a sequence)
  
• J.E. Neilson, C.M. Woodside, D.C. Petriu and S. Majumdar, "Software Bottlenecking in Client-Server Systems and Rendez-vous Networks", IEEE Trans. On Software Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp. 776-782, September 1995. (PostScript)
• G. Hills, J. A. Rolia, and G. Serazzi, "Performance Engineering of Distributed Software Process Architectures," in Proc. of the Performance Tools/MMB 1995, Germany, September 1995.
• Jennifer Liu, D.C. Petriu, J.P. Corriveau, "Performance Modelling of Concurrent OO Systems", Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS USA '95), pp. 241-253, Santa Barbara, August 1995.
  
• D.C. Petriu, Songtao Chen, "Approximate MVA for Client--Server Systems with Nonpreemptive Priority", Proceedings of The International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'95), pp.155-162, Jan.1995. (The Markov-chain decomposition approximation to a single layered queue, extended for priorities)
  
• J. A. Rolia and K. C. Sevcik, "The Method of Layers," IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, vol. 21, no. 8 pp. 689-700, August 1995.  (An approach to layered network solving, considering a layer at a time. This strategy was used in LQNS)
  
• C.M. Woodside, J.E. Neilson, D.C. Petriu and S. Majumdar, "The Stochastic Rendezvous Network Model for Performance of Synchronous Client-Server-Like Distributed Software", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 44, No. 1, January 1995, pp. 20-34. (PostScript)  (The first comprehensive description of the LQN solver, based on a deep arrival-instant approximation for a single queue)
  
• Greg Franks. Traffic dependencies in client-server systems and their effect on performance prediction. In IEEE International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium, pages 24-33, Erlangen, Germany, April 1995. IEEE Computer Society Press.(The "interlocking" approximations for LQNS)
  
• A. M. Khandker, J. A. Rolia, T. J. Teorey, “Performance Modeling of the Distributed Computing Environment”, Report citi-tr-95-6, CITI lab, Univ of Michigan, 1995  PDF   (A hybrid model, LQN for the software and NetMod for the LAN. Some results.)

1994

• D. C. Petriu, "Approximate Mean Value Analysis of Client--Server systems with Multi-class requests," in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS'94, Performance Evaluation Review, Vol.22, No.1, May 1994, pp. 77-86 TDA is described with multiple entries of a task.

1993

• R.G. Franks and C.M. Woodside "Alternative Software Architectures for Parallel Protocol Execution with Synchronous IPC", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 178-186, 1993.
• J. A. Rolia, "Predicting the Performance of Software Systems," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, January 1992.
• C.M. Woodside, "Performance Engineering of Client-Server Systems", Tutorial 16th IFIP Working Group 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation, Rome, Italy, Sept. 1993.

1992 and Earlier

• J. A. Rolia and K. C. Sevcik, "Fast Performance Estimates for a Class of Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets," in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Performance Evaluation, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1992, pp. 31-47.
• D.C. Petriu and C.M. Woodside, "Approximate MVA from Markov Model of Software Client/Server Systems", Proc. Third IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, TX, December 1-5, 1991, pp. 322-329.
• S. Majumdar, C.M. Woodside, J.E. Neilson and D.C. Petriu, "Performance Bounds for Concurrent Software with Rendezvous", Performance Evaluation, Vol. 13 pp. 207-236, 1991. (PostScript)
• C.M. Woodside, J.W. Neilson, S. Majumdar and D.C. Petriu, "Object-Oriented Performance Modelling of Synchronous Client-Server Systems by Rendezvous Networks", Proc. Bell Canada Quality Engineering Symposium, Ottawa, October 1991.
• C.M. Woodside, "Performance Modelling of Concurrent (and Parallel) Software", tutorial to 1990 ACM Sigmetrics Conference, May 1990 (in tutorial volume).
• M. J. Fontenot, "Software Congestion, Mobile Servers, and the Hyperbolic Model," IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 15, pp. 947-962, 1989.

  An open model with a second server that blocks the first. An approximate delay solution.

• C.M. Woodside, "Throughput Calculation for Basic Stochastic Rendezvous Networks", Performance Evaluation, Vol. 9, No. 2, April, 1989.
• J.W. Miernik, C.M. Woodside, J.E. Neilson and D.C. Petriu, "Performance of Stochastic Rendezvous Networks with Priority Tasks", Proc. Int. Seminar on Performance of Distributed and Parallel Systems, Kyoto, Japan, December 1988, pp. 501-515 (published in book form by Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam). (PostScript)
• C.M. Woodside, J.E. Neilson, J.W. Miernik, D.C. Petriu and R. Constantin, "Performance of Concurrent Rendezvous Systems with Complex Pipeline Structures", Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 1988, pp. 361-378. (PostScript)
• J. A. Rolia, "Performance Estimates For Systems With Software Servers: The Lazy Boss Method," in Proceedings VIII SCCC International Conference on Computer Science, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, July 1988, pp. 25-43. (PDF)
• J.W. Miernik, C.M. Woodside, J.E. Neilson and D.C. Petriu, "Throughput of Stochastic Rendezvous Networks with Caller-Specific Service and Processor Contention", Proc. IEEE Infocom '88, New Orleans, USA, March 1988.
• C.M. Woodside, G. Franks and R. Constantin, "A Performance Model for Protocol Execution", Proc. Can. Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, November 3-4, 1988.
• C.M. Woodside, "An Active-Server Model for the Performance of Parallel Programs Written Using Rendezvous", J. Systems and Software, pp. 125-131, 1986.
• C.M. Woodside, E Neron, E. D-S Ho, B. Mondoux, "An Active-Server Model for the Performance of Parallel Programs Written Using Rendezvous", Proc. Int. Workshop on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Parallel Systems, pp. 125-131, Grenoble, Dec. 1984. (PDF)

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