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UML 2001: ≪UML≫ 2001 — The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools pp 209–224Cite as

UML Modelling and Performance Analysis of Mobile Software Architectures

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Modern distributed software applications generally operate in complex and heterogeneous computing environments (like the World Wide Web). Different paradigms (client-server, mobility based, etc.) have been suggested and adopted to cope with the complexity of designing the software architecture of distributed applications for such environments, and deciding the “best” paradigm is a typical choice to be made in the very early software design phases. Several factors should drive this choice, one of them being the impact of the adopted paradigm on the application performance. Within this framework, the contribute of this paper is twofold: we suggest an extension of UML to best modeling the possible adoption of mobility-based paradigms in the software architecture of an application; we introduce a complete methodology that, starting from a software architecture described using this extended notation, generates a performance model (namely a Markov Reward or Decision Process) that allows the designer to evaluate the convenience of introducing logical mobility into a software application.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione, Università di Roma “Tor vergata”, via di Tor Vergata, 00133, Roma, Italy

    Vincenzo Grassi & Raffaela Mirandola

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Database Systems Group, University of Bremen, P.O. Box 33 04 40, 28334, Bremen, Germany

    Martin Gogolla

  2. Telelogic Technologies, P.O. Box 23 20, Fallbrook, CA, 92088, USA

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Grassi, V., Mirandola, R. (2001). UML Modelling and Performance Analysis of Mobile Software Architectures. In: Gogolla, M., Kobryn, C. (eds) ≪UML≫ 2001 — The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools. UML 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2185. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45441-1_16

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