publications:
- title: "A Toolset for Performance Engineering and Software Design of Client-Server Systems"
  author:
  - name: "Greg Franks"
    link: "http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/franks"
  - name: "Alex Hubbard"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/alex-hubbard"
  - name: "Shikharesh Majumdar"
    link: "http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/majumdar"
  - name: "John E. Neilson"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/john-e.-neilson"
  - name: "Dorina C. Petriu"
    link: "http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/petriu"
  - name: "Jerome A. Rolia"
    link: "http://www.hpl.hp.com/people/jerry_rolia/"
  - name: "C. Murray Woodside"
    link: "http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/woodside"
  year: "1995"
  month: "November"
  doi: "10.1016/0166-5316(95)96869-T"
  abstract: "TimeBench/SRVN is a prototype toolset for computer-aided design and performance analysis of software, with an emphasis on distributed client-server systems.  The novelty of the tool consists in providing support both for developing design specifications and also for performance analysis.  The integrated approach avoids the semantic gap between a designer's domain and the performance modeling domain, and assists the designer to explore factors that impact the performance of a design. TimeBench/SRVN is intended as a demonstration of the concept of an integrated designer/performance interface, and as a research environment for fast analytic solvers for the models.  Besides a simulation solver, it offers three approximate analytic solvers based on recent research, a Markovian solver, a technique for finding bounds on the throughput without too many assumptions, and a tool for rapidly exploring the space of possible parameter values."
  tags:
  - "rule-based"
  - "meta-model"
  - "modeling"
  - "design research"
  - "domain analysis"
  - "analysis"
  - "software engineering"
  - "model-driven engineering"
  - "C++"
  - "Meta-Environment"
  - "design"
  - "systematic-approach"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/FranksHMNPRW95"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  journal: "pe"
  volume: "24"
  number: "1-2"
  pages: "117-136"
  kind: "article"
  key: "FranksHMNPRW95"