Software Engineering, An Advanced Course, Reprint of the First Edition [February 21 - March 3, 1972]
The modeling and analysis of supervisory systems
The modeling and analysis of supervisory systems
Performance prediction in an operating system design methodology.
Performance prediction in an operating system design methodology.
Independent general principles for constructing responsive software systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Applying Synthesis Principles to Create Responsive Software Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
MIDAS: Integrated Design and Simulation of Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Designing systems for performance
SIGMETRICS '81 Proceedings of the 1981 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Aspects of software design analysis: Concurrency and blocking
PERFORMANCE '80 Proceedings of the 1980 international symposium on Computer performance modelling, measurement and evaluation
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A technique for simulating incomplete systems is given which allows performance prediction during system design. This technique, called integrated simulation, allows the system design to itself be a simulation model, thus avoiding the overhead of maintaining a separate, valid simulation model for the system. The paper presents integrated simulation in the framework of a system modeling language called the Program Process Modeling Language, PPML. This language provides a means for describing systems of concurrent processes in both abstract and explicit terms, thus lending itself well to a top-down design method. In the design process, any PPML representation of the system can be simulated directly, from the most abstract design to the completely elaborated system. Simulation of the completely elaborated system is, in fact, simply the system in execution. The paper defines PPML and describes the techniques required to simulate PPML systems given various underlying machines. It concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the integrated simulation method.