Seventh International Workshop on Software and Performance WOSP 2008 Princeton, NJ, USA June 23-26, 2008

Home Conference Schedule Discussion Panels Technical Program Tutorials Organizing Committee Program Committee CFP Submission Important Dates Reg. Schedule Registration US Visa Venue and Hotel Corporate Support ICPE 2010 Contact Us   WOSP 2008 Preliminary Program Monday June 23: Tutorials 9:00 - 12:00 Tutorial 1 "Transformations from software models to quality models: mechanisms, approaches, technologies, tools" Vittorio Cortellessa, Antinisca di Marco and Luca Berardinelli L'Aquila University, Italy Lunch: on your own 1:30 - 5:00 Tutorial 2 "Software Performance and Power Management in Large Scale Servers" Daniel Mosse and Alexandre Ferreira University of Pittsburgh 7pm: Welcome Reception for Everyone at the Nassau Inn Tuesday June 24 Note: Paper presentations will be kept brief (20 minutes total including change of authors) to allow time for discussion. Authors should plan on a 15 minute presentation. 8.30 Brief Opening Remarks Alberto Avritzer, Elaine Weyuker, Murray Woodside 8.45 - 10.15 Session 1: Performance Diagnosis and Improvement Chair: Vittorio Cortellessa Rule-based Automatic Software Performance Diagnosis and Improvement Jing Xu, Carleton University, Canada A Heuristic Approach to Optimal Service Selection in Service Oriented Architectures Daniel Menasce and Vinod Dubey, George Mason University, USA Emiliano Casalicchio, Universit`a di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Architecting, Developing and Testing for Performance of Tiered Collaboration Products Shweta Gupta and Jaitirth Shirole, IBM, Puna, India Discussion of all three papers. Break 10.45 - 12.15 Session 2: Panel and Discussion on Industrial Issues in Software Performance Chair: Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Research, USA This discussion will identify issues to be addressed in research and in the later discussions of the conference Panel Members: Mark Edwards, Siemens MED-Diagnostics David Hoeflin, AT&T Labs Aman Shaikh, AT&T Research Randy Stover, Siemens MED Sorian IT Solutions Jim Weythman, Integrasolv Lunch and Steering committee meeting 2.00 - 3.30 Session 3: Performance Analysis from Measurements Chair: Andre Bondi SciSim: A Software Performance Estimation Framework using Source Code Instrumentation Zhonglei Wang, Antonio Sanchez, Andreas Herkersdorf, Technical University of Munich, Germany Controlled Dynamic Performance Analysis Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA A Framework for Measurement Based Performance Modeling Dharmesh Thakkar, Univ. of Victoria, Canada Ahmed E. Hassan, Queen's University, Canada Gilbert Hamann and Parminder Flora, Research in Motion, Canada Discussion of all three papers. Break 4.00 - 5.30 Session 4: Performance Models Derived from Annotated Specifications Chair: Jose Merseguer Automatic Extraction of PEPA Performance Models from UML Activity Diagrams Annotated with the MARTE Profile Mirco Tribastone, Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh, UK PerfCenter: A Performance Modeling Tool for Application Hosting Centers Akhila Deshpande, Varsha Apte and Supriya Marathe, IIT Bombay, India Towards Automatic Derivation of a Product Performance Model from a UML Software Product Line model Rasha Tawhid and Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Discussion of all three papers. 7:30 pm Tuesday Evening: Conference Banquet at the Nassau Inn Wednesday June 25 8.30 - 10.00 Session 5: Transformations and Connections in Performance Analysis Chair: Dorina Petriu Coupled Model Transformations Steffen Becker, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany Performance Analysis of Real-Time Component Architectures: A Model Interchange Approach Connie Smith, Performance Engineering Services, USA Gabriel A. Moreno, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Lloyd Williams, PerfX, USA Three poster papers: Using ATL for Transformations in Software Performance Engineering: a Step Ahead of Java-Based Transformations? Vittorio Cortellessa, Sara Di Gregorio, Antinisca Di Marco, Universit� dell'Aquila, Italy Experimentation and Output Interchange for Petri Net Models Marc Melia, Catalina M. Llado, and Ramon Puigjaner. Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Connie Smith, Performance Engineering Services, USA Automatic Generation of SystemC Models from Component-based Designs for Early Design Validation and Performance Analysis Zhonglei Wang, Michael Tautschnig, Wolfgang Haberl, Stefan Kugele, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Discussion of all three papers. Break with poster display 10.30 - 12.00 Session 6: Fast Abstracts The list of presenters will be available later. Lunch 1.30 - 3.00 Session 7: Panel and Discussion on Testing and Benchmarks Chair: Elaine Weyuker, ATT Research A discussion of progress and problems in empirical performance analysis. Panel Members: Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, USA Trevor Parsons, Performance Engineering Laboratory, University College Dublin, Ireland Malika Ioualalen Boukala, Department of Computer Science of Algiers University, Algeria Break 3.30 - 5.00 Session 8: Modeling from Component Libraries Chair: Cati Llado Towards a Library of Composable Models to Estimate the Performance of Security Solutions Vittorio Cortellessa and Catia Trubiani, Universita dell'Aquila, Italy Extending Model Transformations in the Performance Domain with a Node Modeling Library Flavio Duarte, William Hasling, William Sherman, Dan Paulish, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Rosa Leao, Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita dell'Aquila, Italy A Configurable Performance Completion for Message-Oriented Middleware Jens Happe, University of Oldenburg, Germany Holger Friedrich, andrena objects, Germany Steffen Becker, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany Ralf Reussner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Discussion of all three papers. Thursday June 26 8.30 - 10.00 Session 9: Panel and Discussion on Seamless Unified Performance Analysis Chair: Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada A unified methodology is a usable and transferable methodology. We are seeing progress in unifying the steps of model-based analysis, using models and transformations. Are we there yet? Can we connect modeling to measurement and test data to close the loop? Panel Members: Vittorio Cortellessa, L'Aquila University, Italy Steffen Becker, Institute for Program Structure and Design, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Break 10.30 - 12.00 Enhancing Run-Time Performance Chair: Shikharesh Majumdar Performance of Resource Management Algorithms for "Processable Bulk Data Transfer" Tasks in Grid Environments Imran Ahmad and Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada Run-Time Software Configuration for Mobile Devices using an Evolutionary Quantifiable Deployment Model Jakob Sverre Lovstad and Peter Hughes, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway Adaptivity Metric and Performance for Restart Strategies in Web Services Reliable Messaging Philipp Reinecke and Katinka Wolter, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Discussion of all three papers. 12.00 Wrap-up Chairs: Elaine Weyuker and Murray Woodside A short session to draw conclusions and discuss the future.