Documentation

User's Guide

• QPME 2.0 User's Guide [55 pages, PDF]

Tool Overview

• QPME 2.0 - A Tool for Stochastic Modeling and Analysis using Queueing Petri Nets. In Pablo Guerrero, Ilia Petrov, and Kai Sachs, editors, Active Data Management: From active databases to event-based systems and more. Springer, 2010. [19 pages, PDF]
• QPME - A Performance Modeling Tool Based on Queueing Petri Nets. ACM SIGMETRICS PER 36(4):46-51, March 2009. [6 pages, PDF]
• QPME - Queueing Petri Net Modeling Environment. In Proc. of QEST 2006, September 2006. [2 pages, PDF]

Related Articles, Theses and Reports

Modeling Methodology

• Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Distributed Component-Based Systems using Queueing Petri Nets. IEEE TSE 32(7):486-502, July 2006. [17 pages, PDF]

Model Analysis Techniques

• SimQPN - a tool and methodology for analyzing queueing Petri net models by means of simulation. Performance Evaluation, 63(4-5):364-394, May 2006. [31 pages, PDF]

Results Processing and Presentation

• Filtering, Aggregation and Visualization of QPN Analysis Results (Filterung, Aggregation und Visualisirung von QPN-Analyseergebnissen). Study Thesis by Frederik Zipp (in German), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2009.

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

• QPE - A Graphical Editor for Modeling using Queueing Petri Nets. Master's Thesis by Christofer Dutz, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, March 2006.

Foundations

• Performance Engineering of Distributed Component-Based Systems - Benchmarking, Modeling and Performance Prediction. Shaker Verlag, Ph.D. Thesis by Samuel Kounev, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, December 2005. [PDF]

QPN Bibliography

For a general bibliography on Queueing Petri Nets (QPNs), including theorethical results and practical applications, see our QPN Bibliography.