Chung-Horng Lung, Xiu Zhang, Greg Franks, Marzia Zaman. Towards A Performance-Oriented Self-Adaptive System. In Hamid R. Arabnia, Hassan Reza, editors, Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Research & Practice, SERP 2007, Volume II, June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas Nevada, USA. pages 613-620, CSREA Press, 2007.
Software architecture evaluation is critical to the success of a system. Software architecture evaluation, unfortunately, is difficult in practice, especially for performance or quality-of-service at the early stage where uncertainties usually arise. Selecting an architecture alternative that has better performance requires more detailed information and efforts. In addition, software performance issue becomes even more challenging with respect to increasing hardware complexity and sophisticated software interactions. This position paper proposes an approach that could conduct self-management based on performance results. Such an approach can help the architect conduct architecture evaluation more effectively and efficiently. In addition, the architect can focus more on the application level