Murray Woodside - Distinguished Research Professor OCRI/NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Performance Engineering of Real-Time Software

• Degrees: B.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
• Phone: 613-520-2600 x 5721
• Email: murray.woodside@sce.carleton.ca
• Office: 4482 ME

Research

Improving the performance of complex distributed computer software by the use of performance models; deriving models from annotated software designs in UML; deriving models from traces and other measurements; model-solving algorithms; strategies and tools for performance improvement; usability of modelling; accuracy of solutions; architectural patterns for high-performance systems. Autonomic control based on models, and estimation of model parameters and structure by tracking filters.

Application

Many applications from web services and enterprise computing through communications switching systems and voice-over-IP to embedded systems; autonomic systems; component-based software; product lines; modelling of mechanisms that enhance reliability and security.

Activities

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Journal Articles

Dorina B. Petriu, and Murray Woodside (2005), “An Intermediate Metamodel with Scenarios and Resources for Generating Performance Models from UML Designs,” Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (publication pending).