Formal Methods for Performance Evaluation

This book presents a set of 11 papers accompanying the lectures of leading researchers given at the 7th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2007, held in Bertinoro, Italy in May/June 2007.

SFM 2007 was devoted to formal techniques for performance evaluation and covered several aspects of the field.

Inhalt

Performance Modelling and Markov Chains.- Queueing Networks.- to Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets.- Stochastic Process Algebras.- A Survey of Markovian Behavioral Equivalences.- Stochastic Model Checking.- Fluid Models in Performance Analysis.- Tackling Large State Spaces in Performance Modelling.- Data Representation and Efficient Solution: A Decision Diagram Approach.- to Software Performance Engineering: Origins and Outstanding Problems.- From Annotated Software Designs (UML SPT/MARTE) to Model Formalisms.