Papers on Performance Analysis of Component and Middleware based Applications

1.       Liming Zhu, Yan Liu, Ngoc Bao Bui, Ian Gorton: Revel8or: Model Driven Capacity Planning Tool Suite. ICSE 2007: Minneapolis, 797-800 (pdf)

2.       Liming Zhu, Ngoc Bao Bui, Yan Liu, Ian Gorton: MDABench: Customized benchmark generation using MDA. Journal of Systems and Software 80(2): 265-282 (2007)

3.       Liming Zhu, Yan Liu, Ian Gorton, Ngoc Bao Bui: Customized Benchmark Generation Using MDA. 5th IEEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture, Pittsburg, Nov 2005 : 35-44 (pdf)

4.       Liming Zhu, Yan Liu, Ian Gorton, Ngoc Bao Bui: MDAbench: a tool for customized benchmark generation using MDA. OOPSLA Companion 2005: San Diego, 171-172

5.       Y. Liu, I.Gorton, An Empirical Evaluation of Architectural Alternatives for J2EE and Web Services,  11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, pages 10-17, Busan, Korea, IEEE, November 2004

6.       P.Tran, J.Gosper, I.Gorton, Evaluating the Sustained Performance of COTS-based Messaging Systems, in Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, vol 13, pp 229-240, Wiley and Sons, 2003 (pdf)

7.       I.Gorton, A Liu, Performance Evaluation of Alternative Component Architectures for Enterprise JavaBean Applications, in IEEE Internet Computing, vol.7, no. 3, pages 18-23, 2003 (pdf)

8.       I.Gorton, A.Liu, P.Brebner, Rigorous Evaluation of COTS Middleware Technology, in IEEE Computer, vol. 36, no. 3, pages 50-55, March 2003 (pdf)

9.       A.Liu, I. Gorton, Accelerating COTS Middleware Technology Acquisition: the i-MATE Process, in IEEE Software, pages 72-79,volume 20, no. 2,  March/April  2003 (pdf)

10.   P. Tran, P. Greenfield, I. Gorton, Behavior and Performance of Message-Oriented Middleware Systems, Proceedings, 22nd Intīl Conf on Dist. Computing Systems Workshops, Vienna 2-5 Jul 2002. Pages 645-650.IEEE

11.   I.Gorton, A.Liu, Software Component Quality Assessment in Practice: Successes and Practical Impediments, in Proceedings 24th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2002, Orlando, USA May 2002, pages 555-559, ACM Press (pdf)

12.   Liu, Y., Gorton, I., Liu, A., Jiang, N. and Chen, S. (2002). Designing a test suite for empirically-based middleware performance prediction. In Proc.40th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS Pacific 2002), Sydney, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, 10. ACS. pp 123 -130, ISBN 0-909925-88-7 (pdf)

Papers on Performance Prediction for Component and Middleware based Applications

1.       Yan Liu, Ian Gorton, Liming Zhu: Performance Prediction of Service-Oriented Applications based on an Enterprise Service Bus. COMPSAC (1) 2007: Beijing, 327-334 (pdf)

2.       Yan Liu, Alan Fekete, Ian Gorton, Design Level Performance Prediction of Component-based Applications, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 31(11): 928-941 (2005)

3.       Y. Liu, I. Gorton, Performance Prediction of J2EE Applications using Messaging Protocols, in Proceedings of 8th International SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, (CBSE 2005), pages 1-16, St Loius, USA May 2005, Springer-Verlag (25% Acceptance rate) (pdf)

4.       S.Chan, Y. Liu, I.Gorton, A.Liu, Performance Prediction of Component-based Applications, in the Journal of System Software Automated Component-Based Software Engineering Special Issue, vol 74, Issue 1,  pages 35-43, January 2005

5.       Yan Liu, Ian Gorton, Accuracy of Performance Prediction for EJB applications: A statistical analysis, in Software Engineering for Middleware (SEM’04),pages 185-198,  Linz, Austria, Springer-Verlag, September 2004 (30% acceptance rate) (pdf)

6.       Yan Liu, Alan Fekete, Ian Gorton: Predicting the performance of middleware-based applications at the design level. Workshop on Software Performance 2004: 166-170, Redwood Shores, California, USA, January 14-16, 2004. ACM 2004

7.       S.Chen, I.Gorton, A Predictive Performance Model to Evaluate the Contention Cost in Application Servers, in  Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, December 2002, IEEE (pdf)

8.       Y.Liu, I.Gorton, A.Liu, S.Chen, Evaluating the Scalability of Enterprise JavaBeans Technology, in Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, December 2002, IEEE (pdf)

9.       L.Hu, I.Gorton, Performance-Oriented Design using HL, in Proceedings of the 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Software Technology Track, Jan 1998, IEEE

10.   L.Hu, I.Gorton, A Prototyping Approach to Performance Prediction for Distributed Software Architectures, in the Proceedings of 2nd IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, Boston, May 1997, IEEE