An Architectural Approach for Integrating Performance Evaluation into the Systems Design Process

This paper presents work aimed at integrating performance evaluation into the systems design process. It considers the problem of providing a performance evaluation service to system designers that will allow practitioners from different application areas to specify the system in a level of abstraction that is readily understandable in their own particular application area, and then to use this specification to automatically generate a solution for the performance evaluation of that system. It presents the proposal for an open-systems-like architectural approach to the problem of providing these services and outlines the research issues that need to be addressed in the development of this architecture