A Lexical and Syntactical Analyzer for the Exporting of QNAP∗to the Performance Model Interchange Format (PMIF)

A Performance Model Interchange Format (PMIF) provides a mechanism whereby system model information may be transferred among performance modeling tools. The PMIF allows diverse tools to exchange information and requires only that the importing and exporting tools either support the PMIF or provide an interface that reads/writes model specifications from/to a file. This paper presents the development of the Qnap exporting mechanism to the PMIF. Since access to Qnap internal code is not possible, the only way of exporting Qnap is by translating Qnap input files, for which a lexical and syntax analyzer needs to be developed.