@InProceedings{Giese&Wirtz2000,
AUTHOR = {Giese, Holger and Wirtz, Guido},
TITLE = {{Early Evaluation of Design Options for Distributed Systems}},
YEAR = {2000},
MONTH = {June},
BOOKTITLE = {Int. Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE'2000), Limerick, Ireland},
PUBLISHER = {IEEE Press},
PDF = {pdse2000.pdf},
PS = {pdse2000.ps.gz},
ABSTRACT = {In order to obtain efficiency, current practice in distributed software systems design often suffers from a lack of abstraction w.r.t. the intended implementation environment. Whereas rapid change of techniques and underlying infrastructure for implementation enforces the use of more high-level techniques in order to reuse designs, a suitable level of abstraction is required to model aspects like throughput, availability or overall system performance in a manner which supports design evaluation through simulation or test cases. % An object-oriented design technique based on UML notations and a special type of high-level Petri-Nets is used to demonstrate how designs can be kept sufficiently abstract for re-use but still support design alternatives and their evaluation.}
}