Research

Performance Engineering

2013
Fundamentals of Benchmarking in P2P Systems: Benchmarking Methodology Karsten Saller, Kamill Panitzek, Max Lehn In Wolfgang Effelsberg, Ralf Steinmetz, Thorsten Strufe: Benchmarking Peer-to-Peer Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7847, Springer, 2013 [BibTeX]
2010
A Logistics Workload for Event Notification Middleware Stefan Appel, Kai Sachs In Kai Sachs, Ilia Petrov, Pablo Guerrero: From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6462, ISBN 978-3-642-17225-0, Springer, November 2010 [PDF] [BibTeX]
Towards Benchmarking of AMQP Stefan Appel, Kai Sachs, Alejandro Buchmann 4th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), July 2010 [PDF] [BibTeX]
Statistical Inference of Software Performance Models for Parametric Performance Completions Jens Happe, Dennis Westermann, Kai Sachs, Lucia Kapova 6th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010 [PDF] [BibTeX]
Performance Modeling and Benchmarking of Event-Based Systems (PhD Thesis) Kai Sachs TU Darmstadt, ISBN 9783868443530, Sierke Verlag, 2010 SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2011 [PDF] [BibTeX]
2009
Benchmarking and Performance Modeling of Event-Based Systems Samuel Kounev, Kai Sachs it - Information Technology , Vol. 51, No. 5 , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich, Germany, October 2009 [Journal] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Performance evaluation of message-oriented middleware using the SPECjms2007 benchmark Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev, Jean Bacon, Alejandro Buchmann Performance Evaluation, Vol. 66, No. 8, Elsevier Science, August 2009 [PDF] [BibTeX]
Event-Based Applications and Enabling Technologies Annika Hinze, Kai Sachs, Alejandro Buchmann Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2009), Nashville, TN, USA, July 2009 Keynote of A. Buchmann [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Benchmarking of Message-Oriented Middleware Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev, Stefan Appel, Alejandro Buchmann Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2009), Nashville, TN, USA, July 2009 [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
A Performance Test Harness For Publish/Subscribe Middleware Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev, Stefan Appel, Alejandro Buchmann SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009 Demo Competition, June 2009 [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Computer Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, SPEC Benchmark Workshop, Austin/Tx, US, January 25, 2009, Proceedings David Kaeli, Kai Sachs ISBN 978-3-540-93798-2, Springer, 2009 [Website] [BibTeX]
2008
Software Performance Evaluation Samuel Kounev In Benjamin W. Wah: Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, ISBN 978-0471383932, Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 2008 [BibTeX]
Performance Evaluation of Embedded ECA Rule Engines: a Case Study Pablo E. Guerrero, Kai Sachs, Stephan Butterweck, Alejandro Buchmann Proceedings of the 5th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 5261, ISBN 978-3-540-87411-9, Springer LNCS, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2008 [PDF] [BibTeX]
Survey of Event-Based Applications and Enabling Technologies Annika Hinze, Kai Sachs, Alejandro P. Buchmann Technical Report, No. TUD-CS-2008-109, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Informatik, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2008 [BibTeX]
Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks, SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, SIPEW 2008 Samuel Kounev, Ian Gorton, Kai Sachs Springer, June 2008 [Website] [BibTeX]
A Methodology for Performance Modeling of Distributed Event-Based Systems Samuel Kounev, Kai Sachs, Jean Bacon, Alejandro P. Buchmann Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2008), IEEE, May 2008 [PDF] [BibTeX]
SPECjms2007 - A novel benchmark and performance analysis framework for message-oriented middleware Samuel Kounev, Kai Sachs March 2008 DEV2DEV Article, O'Reilly Publishing Group [Website] [BibTeX]
Kaffeekunde - SPECjms2007 misst Message Oriented Middleware Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev iX - Magazin für professionelle Informationstechnik, No. 2, Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, Hannover, Germany, February 2008 [BibTeX]
2007
Autonomic QoS-Aware Resource Management in Grid Computing using Online Performance Models Samuel Kounev, Ramon Nou, Jordi Torres 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2007), Nantes, France, ISBN 978-1-59593-819-0, October 2007 [BibTeX]
Workflow Support for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks Pablo Guerrero, Daniel Jacobi, Alejandro Buchmann 4th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, Vienna, Austria, September 2007 [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Building Online Performance Models of Grid Middleware with Fine-Grained Load-Balancing: A Globus Toolkit Case Study Ramon Nou, Samuel Kounev, Jordi Torres Formal Methods and Stochastic Models for Performance Evaluation, Proceedings of the Fourth European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW), LNCS 4748, Springer, Berlin, Germany, September 2007 [PDF] [BibTeX]
Workload Characterization of the SPECjms2007 Benchmark Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev, Jean Bacon, Alejandro Buchmann Proceedings of the 4th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW 2007), Springer LNCS, September 2007 [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Designing a Workload Scenario for Benchmarking Message-Oriented Middleware Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev, Marc Carter, Alejandro Buchmann Proceedings of the 2007 SPEC Benchmark Workshop, SPEC, Austin, Texas, USA, January 2007 [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
On the Use of Queueing Petri Nets for Modeling and Performance Analysis of Distributed Systems Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann In Vedran Kordic: Petri Net, Theory and Application, Advanced Robotic Systems International, Vienna, Austria, 2007 [BibTeX]
2006
QPME - Queueing Petri Net Modeling Environment Samuel Kounev, Christofer Dutz, Alejandro Buchmann Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST-2006), Riverside, USA, September 2006 [Conference] [BibTeX]
Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Distributed Component-Based Systems using Queueing Petri Nets Samuel Kounev IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 32, No. 7, IEEE Computer Society, July 2006 [BibTeX]
SimQPN - a tool and methodology for analyzing queueing Petri net models by means of simulation Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann Performance Evaluation, Vol. 63, No. 4–5, Elsevier Science, May 2006 [Journal] [BibTeX]
J2EE Performance and Scalability - From Measuring to Predicting Samuel Kounev Proceedings of the 2006 SPEC Benchmark Workshop, Austin, TX, USA, January 2006 [Conference] [BibTeX]
Message Types and Interfaces Between Components in SPECjms Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev Technical Report, No. DVS06-2, SPEC OSG Java Subcommittee, 2006 [BibTeX]
Workload Scenario for SPECjms "Supermarket Supply Chain" Kai Sachs, Samuel Kounev Technical Report, No. DVS06-1, SPEC OSG Java Subcommittee, 2006 [BibTeX]
2005
Data Management Research at Technische Universität Darmstadt Alejandro Buchmann, Mariano Cilia ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 34, No. 4, ISSN 0163-5808, ACM Press, December 2005 [PDF] [BibTeX]
SPECjAppServer2004 - The New Way to Evaluate J2EE Performance Samuel Kounev DEV2DEV Article, O'Reilly Publishing Group, September 2005 [Website] [BibTeX]
Performance Engineering of Distributed Component-Based Systems - Benchmarking, Modeling and Performance Prediction (PhD Thesis) Samuel Kounev Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Informatik, Darmstadt, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8322-4713-3, Shaker-Verlag, August 2005 [Website] [BibTeX]
2004
Performance Tuning and Optimization of J2EE Applications on the JBoss Platform Samuel Kounev, Björn Weis, Alejandro Buchmann Journal of Computer Resource Management, Vol. 113, CMG, December 2004 [PDF] [BibTeX]
2003
PetStore-WS: Measuring the Performance Implications of Web Services Kai Juse, Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann Proc. of the 29th International Conference of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) on Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems - CMG2003, December 2003 [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Large-Scale J2EE Applications Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann Proc. of the 29th International Conference of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) on Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems - CMG2003, December 2003 Received best paper award [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Performance Modelling of Distributed E-Business Applications using Queuing Petri Nets Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann Proc. of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS'03), March 2003 Received best paper award [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
2002
Evaluating Advanced Routing Algorithms for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems Gero Mühl, Ludger Fiege, Felix C. Gärtner, Alejandro P. Buchmann The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2002), IEEE Computer Society, Fort Worth, TX, USA, October 2002 [PDF] [BibTeX]
Large-Scale Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems (PhD Thesis) Gero Mühl Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Informatik, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2002 [Website] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Improving Data Access of J2EE Applications by Exploiting Asynchronous Processing and Caching Services Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann Proc. of the 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases - VLDB2002, August 2002 [Conference] [PDF] [BibTeX]
Filter Similarities in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems Gero Mühl, Ludger Fiege, Alejandro P. Buchmann International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), LNCS 2299, Karlsruhe, Germany, Springer-Verlag, April 2002 [Conference] [BibTeX]
Performance Issues in E-Business Systems Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann Proc. of the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet - SSGRR-2002w, January 2002 [PDF] [BibTeX]
2001
Implementing and Optimizing Sun's ECperf Benchmark with BEA WebLogic Server Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann BEA Hochschul-Industrie-Kooperations-Tagung BEA-HIKT, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2001 [Slides] [BibTeX]
Encoded Bitmap Indexes and Their Use for Data Warehouse Optimization (PhD Thesis) Ming-Chuan Wu Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Informatik, Darmstadt, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8265-8682-8, Shaker-Verlag, January 2001 [BibTeX]
1999
OBJECTIVE: A Benchmark for Object-Oriented Active Database Systems Ugur Cetintemel, Jürgen Zimmermann, Ozgur Ulusoy, Alejandro Buchmann Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 45, No. 1, 1999 [BibTeX]