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A Performance Engineering Case Study: Software Retrieval System?

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This chapter presents a case study in performance engineering. The case study consists of a Software Retrieval System based on agents. The system is modelled in a pragmatic way using the Unified Modeling Language and in a formal way using stochastic Petri Nets. Once the system has been modelled, performance figures are obtained from the formal model. Finally, some concluding remarks are obtained from our experience in the software performance process.

This work has been developed within the project TAP98-0679 of the Spanish CICYT.

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  1. Dpto. de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, University of Zaragoza, Spain

    José Merseguer, Javier Campos & Eduardo Mena

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  1. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Postfach 4120, 39016, Magdeburg, Germany

    Reiner Dumke , Claus Rautenstrauch  & André Scholz ,  & 

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Merseguer, J., Campos, J., Mena, E. (2001). A Performance Engineering Case Study: Software Retrieval System?. In: Dumke, R., Rautenstrauch, C., Scholz, A., Schmietendorf, A. (eds) Performance Engineering. WOSP GWPESD 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45156-0_20

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