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Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

A Milestone for DML

24.09.2016

A new journal paper "Model-Based Self-Aware Performance and Resource Management Using the Descartes Modeling Language" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). The Descartes Modeling Language (DML) is a major product of our group used in a number of projects.

Abstract:

Modern IT systems have increasingly distributed and dynamic architectures providing flexibility to adapt to changes in the environment and thus enabling higher resource efficiency. However, these benefits come at the cost of higher system complexity and dynamics. Thus, engineering systems that manage their end-to-end application performance and resource efficiency in an autonomic manner is a challenge. In this article, we present a holistic model-based approach for self-aware performance and resource management leveraging the Descartes Modeling Language (DML), an architecture-level modeling language for online performance and resource management. We propose a novel online performance prediction process that dynamically tailors the model solving depending on the requirements regarding accuracy and overhead. Using these prediction capabilities, we implement a generic model-based control loop for proactive system adaptation. We evaluate our model-based approach in the context of two representative case studies showing that with the proposed methods, significant resource efficiency gains can be achieved while maintaining performance requirements. These results represent the first end-to-end validation of our approach, demonstrating its potential for self-aware performance and resource management in the context of modern IT systems and infrastructures.

Reference:

Nikolaus Huber, Fabian Brosig, Simon Spinner, Samuel Kounev, and Manuel Bähr. Model-Based Self-Aware Performance and Resource Management Using the Descartes Modeling Language. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), PP(99), 2017, IEEE Computer Society. To appear. [ pdfDOIhttp ]

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