The present paper provides an overview of recent and ongoing research conducted at the Chair of Programming and Software Engineering of LMU Munich on performance evaluation of large-scale computer systems.

A software architecture is one of the first steps towards a software system. The design of the architecture is important in order to create a good foundation for the system. The design process is performed by evaluating architecture alternatives against each other. A desirable property of a good evaluation method is high efficiency at low cost. In this paper, we investigate the use of continuou...

John Rischard Rice is one of the founders of mathematical software as a distinct scholarly community. Trained in mathematics he spent four decades in Purdue University’s Department of Computer Sciences. During the 1970s, he convened a series of seminal conferences on the topic and established ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, which he edited for many years. Rice led development of the ...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) increasingly attracts more researchers as well as industry attentions. Most of current SDN packet processing approaches classify packets based on matching a set of fields on the packet against a flow table and then applying an action on the packet. The authors argue that it is possible to simplify this mechanism using single-field classification and reduce the ...