Performance evaluation of software development teams: a practical case study

P Fernandes, A Sales, AR Santos, T Webber - Electronic Notes in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Software development projects have become a challenge for both industry and academia
regarding the performance evaluation of teams. Recently, a Stochastic Automata Networks …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting software performance in symmetric multi-core and multiprocessor environments

J Happe - 2009 - d-nb.info
With today's rise of multi-core processors in the desktop market and in common server
systems, concurrency becomes a ubiquitous challenge in software development …

Analysis of exponential reliable production lines using Kronecker descriptors

P Fernandes, MEJ O'Kelly… - … Journal of Production …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a solution procedure for reliable production lines with service times
distributed according to an exponential distribution, based on a Markovian formulation with a …

Stochastic performance analysis of global software development teams

RM Czekster, P Fernandes, L Lopes, A Sales… - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Measuring productivity in globally distributed projects is crucial to improve team
performance. These measures often display information on whether a given project is …

Efficient vector-descriptor product exploiting time-memory trade-offs

RM Czekster, P Fernandes, T Webber - ACM SIGMETRICS Performance …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The description of large state spaces through stochastic structured modeling formalisms like
stochastic Petri nets, stochastic automata networks and performance evaluation process …

Réseaux d'Automates Stochastiques: Génération de l'espace d'états atteignables et Multiplication vecteur-descripteur pour une sémantique en temps discret

AHC De Sales - 2009 - theses.hal.science
Cette thèse présente des méthodes et des algorithmes pour l'évaluation de performance de
systèmes à grand espace d'états décrits par des formalismes de haut niveau. Parmi les …

[PDF][PDF] San lite-solver: a user-friendly software tool to solve san models

AHC de Sales - Theory of Modeling and Simulation: DEVS …, 2012 - meriva.pucrs.br
Structured Markovian models are widely used to map and analyze the behavior of complex
systems. However, the modeler must frequently need a deeply knowledge about specialized …

A structured stochastic model for prediction of geological stratal stacking patterns

J Assunçao, L Espindola, P Fernandes, M Pivel… - Electronic Notes in …, 2013 - Elsevier
This article presents a novel Stochastic Automata Networks (SAN) model to estimate the
behavior of sediment strata formation in continental margins resulting from interaction …

Stochastic model for QoS assessment in multi-tier web services

RM Czekster, P Fernandes, A Sales, T Webber… - Electronic Notes in …, 2011 - Elsevier
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are used to guarantee quality of service (QoS) between
customers and service providers. In an SLA, parties establish a common set of rules and …

Automatic derivation of performance prediction models for load-balancing properties based on goal-oriented measurements

M Hauck, J Happe, RH Reussner - 2010 IEEE International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In symmetric multiprocessing environments, the performance of a software system heavily
depends on the application's parallelism, the scheduling and load-balancing policies of the …