Many large-scale software systems must service thousands or millions of concurrent
requests. These systems must be load tested to ensure that they can function correctly under …

Context: Software performance is crucial for ensuring the quality of software products. As
one of the non‐functional requirements, the few efforts devoted to software performance …

The growth and evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW) has been rapid over the last ten
years and this has been caused mainly by factors such as the social Web and mobile …

The specification of workloads is required in order to evaluate performance characteristics of
application systems using load testing and model-based performance prediction. Defining …

Currently, we see a variety of tools and techniques for specifying and implementing
business processes. The problem is that there are still gaps and tensions between the …

We introduce the Web-Enabled Simulation (WES) research agenda, and describe
FACEBOOK's WW system. We describe the application of WW to reliability, integrity and …

Writing concurrent programs is a challenge because developers must consider both
functional correctness and performance requirements. Numerous program analyses and …

Cloud computing offers a fast, easy and cost-effective way to configure and allocate
computing resources for web applications, such as consoles for smart grid applications …

We introduce a new technique for estimating the curvature tensor of a triangular mesh. The
input of the algorithm is only a single triangle equipped with its (exact or estimated) vertex …

Develo** concurrent software that is both correct and efficient is challenging. Past
research has proposed various techniques that support developers in finding …