Tools for Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems: Historical Evolution and Perspectives

摘要

The development of software tools for performance evaluation and modeling has been an active research area since the early years of computer sci ence. In this paper, we offer a short overview of historical evolution of the field with an emphasis on popular performance modeling techniques such as queuing networks and Petri nets. A review of recent works that provide new perspectives to software tools for performance modeling is presented, followed by a number of ideas on future research directions for the area.