FZI Prize "Best Diploma Thesis"

Fabian Brosig from the Descartes Research Group was awarded the FZI (Forschungszentrum Informatik) Prize "Best Diploma Thesis" for his diploma thesis with the title "Automated Extraction of Palladio Component Models from Running Enterprise Java Applications" supervised by Samuel Kounev and Klaus Krogmann. The work of the thesis was carried out in close cooperation with Oracle Corp. The thesis presents an approach for automated extraction of performance models (Palladio Component Models) of Java EE applications, based on monitoring data collected during operation. The model extraction method is evaluated in the context of a case study with a real-world enterprise application and demonstrates that the existing gap between low-level monitoring data and high-level performance models can be closed.

The results of the thesis were published in the following two papers available online:

Fabian Brosig, Samuel Kounev, and Klaus Krogmann. Automated Extraction of Palladio Component Models from Running Enterprise Java Applications. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Run-time mOdels for Self-managing Systems and Applications (ROSSA 2009). In conjunction with Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2009), Pisa, Italy, October 19, 2009.  ACM, New York, NY, USA, October 2009. [ bib | .pdf ]

Fabian Brosig, Samuel Kounev, and Charles Paclat. Using WebLogic Diagnostics Framework to Enable Performance Prediction for Java EE Applications. Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Article, September 2009. [ bib | .html ]

Fabian Brosig is a research assistant in the Descartes Research Group at KIT which is part of the Chair for Software Design and Quality.