This is my talk at the ICSE 2011 Software Engineering In Practice Track. It’s about a large-scale case study on performance and reliability prediction for service-oriented software systems. Also see the Q-ImPrESS website for more details.
“This headless, two-armed robot may be tomorrow’s factory worker. Its name is FRIDA, and it’s a creation of ABB, the Swiss power and automation giant, which introduced it early this month at the Hannover trade show, Europe’s largest industrial fair…”
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/abb-factory-robot-frida
New paper accepted at MASCOTS 2011: “This paper contributes a formal mapping from PCM to QPN models, implemented by means of an automated model-to-model transformation as part of a new PCM solution method based on simulation of QPNs. The limitations of the mapping and the accuracy and overhead of the new solution method compared to existing methods are evaluated in detail in the context of five case studies of different size and complexity. The new solution method proved to provide good accuracy with solution overhead up to 20 times lower compared to PCM’s reference solver.”
Yesterday, I arrived in Västerås in Sweden, where I will stay for three month on a job rotation for ABB. Check out the weather and Google Street View.
Three new papers have been accepted at the 7th International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA’11), which will be held in Boulder, Colorado, USA in June:
Anne and Catia have received a best paper award for their contribution “Detection and Solution of Software Performance Antipatterns in Palladio Architectural Models” at the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE’11). Congratulations!
An ABB interferometer is a central component of an instrument that will orbit Mars and probe the planet’s atmosphere in search of indicators of the past or present existence of life.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Copyright: European Space Agency
Gave a talk on software sustainability guidelines at the Design for Future Workshop (DFF 2011) at this years GI software engineering conference (SE2011).
Cooperation with ABB Corporate Research Sweden:
Final MT Prototype – SCA Factory Viewer from Ru Zarin on Vimeo.