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Software requirements & specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices
Software requirements & specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices
Evaluating the Scalability of Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Characteristics of scalability and their impact on performance
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Software and performance
Software performance testing based on workload characterization
WOSP '02 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance
Two approaches to integrating UML and performance models
WOSP '02 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance
Software Engineering for Scalable Distributed Applications
COMPSAC '98 Proceedings of the 22nd International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Exploring architectural scalability
WOSP '04 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Software and performance
Performance by unified model analysis (PUMA)
Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Software and performance
Queue - Multiprocessors
Accuracy of performance prediction for EJB applications: a statistical analysis
SEM'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software Engineering and Middleware
Model-Based scalability estimation in inception-phase software architecture
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Timeliness and transaction management in extended enterprises
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Available task-level parallelism on the Cell BE
Scientific Programming - High Performance Computing with the Cell Broadband Engine
Scalability improvement in software evaluation methodologies
IRI'09 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international conference on Information Reuse & Integration
Algorithm engineering: bridging the gap between algorithm theory and practice
Algorithm engineering: bridging the gap between algorithm theory and practice
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Toward A Generic Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing
International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
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Scalability is a widely-used term in scientific papers, technical magazines and software descriptions. Its use in the most varied contexts contribute to a general confusion about what the term really means. This lack of consensus is a potential source of problems, as assumptions are made in the face of a scalability claim. A clearer and widely-accepted understanding of scalability is required to restore the usefulness of the term. This research investigates commonly found definitions of scalability and attempts to capture its essence in a systematic framework. Its expected contribution is in assisting software developers to reason, characterize, communicate and adjust the scalability of software systems.