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Performance Modeling Of Distributed Collaboration Services, Toqeer A. Israr, Gregor V. Bochmann
Performance Modeling Of Distributed Collaboration Services, Toqeer A. Israr, Gregor V. Bochmann
Toqeer A Israr
This paper deals with performance modeling of distributed applications, service compositions and workflow systems. From the functional perspective, the distributed application is modeled as a collaboration involving several roles, and its behavior is defined in terms of a composition from several sub-collaborations using the standard sequencing operators found in UML Activity Diagrams and similar formalisms. For the performance perspective, each collaboration is characterized by a certain number of independent input events and dependent output events, and the performance of the collaboration is defined by the minimum delays that apply for a given output event in respect to each input event …