Department of Systems and Computer Engineering Ottawa, Canada

Publications in Refereed Journals

• M.Litoiu, J.Rolia, and G.Serazzi. "Designing Process Replication and Activation, A Quantitative Approach.'' To appear in IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, Accepted Dec. 2, 1998.
  
  
• C.Hrischuk, C.M. Woodside, J.Rolia, and R.Iversen. "Trace-based load characterization for generating software performance models.'' IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, Volume 25, Number 1, January 1999, pages 122-135.
  
  
• J. Dilley, R. Friedrich, T. Jin, and J. Rolia, "Web Server Performance Measurement and Modeling Techniques'' Performance Evaluation Journal, Volume 33, pages 5-26, 1998.
  
  
• M. A. Bauer, et al.. J. Rolia, "Services Supporting the Management of Distributed Application Systems.'' IBM Systems Journal, 1997, Volume 36, Number 4, pages 508-526.
  
  
• G. Franks, A. Hubbard, S. Majumdar, D. Petriu, J. Rolia, C.M. Woodside, "A Toolset for Performance Engineering and Software Design of Client-Server Systems", Special Issue of the Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1-2, pp. 117-135, 1996.
  
  
• J.A. Rolia and K.C. Sevcik, "The Method of Layers,'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 689-700, August 1995.
  
  
• M.A. Bauer, P.J. Finnigan, J.W. Hong, J.A. Rolia, T.J. Teorey, and G.A. Winters, "Reference architecture for distributed systems management," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp.426-444, 1994.
  
  

  Publications in Refereed Conferences

• M. Litoiu, D. Krishnamurthy, and J. Rolia, "Performance Testing for Distributed Object Applications," Appears in the Web proceedings of ICSE Workshop on Testing Distributed Component-Based Systems, May 17, 1999, Los Angeles, USA.
  
  
• D. Krishnamurthy, M. Litoiu, and J. Rolia, "Performance Stress Conditions and Capacity Planning for E-Business Applications," To appear in the proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Commerce, Beijing, People's Republic of China, May 17-20, 1999.
  
  
• F. ElRayes, J. Rolia, and R. Friedrich, "The Performance Impact of Workload Characterization for Distributed Applications using ARM," Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) '98, December, 1998, Anaheim, California, USA, pages 821-830. cmg98.ps cmg98talk.ps
  
  
• D. Krishnamurthy and J. Rolia, "The Internet vs. Electronic Commerce Servers, When Will Server Performance Matter?", To appear in the proceedings of CASCON '98 , November 30 - Dec 2, 1998, Toronto, Canada, pages 246-258.
  
  
• D. Krishnamurthy, and J. Rolia, "Predicting the QoS of an Electronic Commerce Server: Those Mean Percentiles," To appear in the Performance Evaluation Review, based on the paper in the 1998 Workshop on Internet Server Performance (WISP '98), Madison Wisconsin, USA, June 23, 1998 (In conjunction with Sigmetrics/Performance '98).
  
  
• M. Litoiu, J. Rolia, G. Serazzi,, "Designing Process Replication and Threading Policies: A Quantitative Approach," 10th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation (Tools '98), Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Ramon Puigjaner, Nunzio N. Savino, Bartolomeu Sera (Editors), Vol. 1469, pp.15-26. tools98.ps
  
  
• J. Rolia and V. Vetland, "Correlating Resource Demand Information with ARM Data for Application Services," Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP '98), October 22-28, 1998, Santa Fe, NM, USA, pages 219-230.
  
  
• D. Krishnamurthy, and J. Rolia, "Predicting the QoS of an Electronic Commerce Server: Those Mean Percentiles," Appears in the proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Internet Server Performance (WISP '98), Madison Wisconsin, USA, June 23, 1998 (In conjunction with Sigmetrics/Performance '98).
  
  
• A. Elrayess and J. Rolia, "Reducing Coupling in Distributed Management Frameworks," IEEE Third International Workshop on Systems Management, April 22-24, 1998, Newport, RI, USA, pages 139-147.
  
  
• D. Krishnamurthy and J. Rolia, "SiteWalker-A tool supporting performance characterization and capcity planning for Electronic Commerce Systems," To appear in the proceedings of the IFIP International Working Conference on Electronic Commerce 98 (Industrial Track), Hamburg, Germany, June 3-5, 1998.
  
  
• J. Dilley, R. Friedrich, T. Jin, and J. Rolia, "Measurement Tools and Modeling Techniques for Evaluating Web Server Performance," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1245, R. Marie, B. Plateau, M. Calzarossa, G. Rubino (Eds.), pages 155-168.
  
  
• F. Sheihk, J. Rolia, P. Garg, S. Frolund, A. Shepherd, "Layered Modelling of Large Scale Distributed Applications," Appears in the proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Systems Simulation, Quality of Service Modelling, Singapore, September 1-3, 1997, pages 247-254.qossing.ps
  
  
• A. El Rayess, and J. Rolia, "Automatic Generation of Performance Models Using the Distributed Management Framework," Appears in the Proceedings of CASCON '97, November, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 10-13, 1997, pages 58-71.
  
  
• M. Litoiu, H. Khafagy, A. Rass Wan, J. Rolia, "A Performance Engineering Tool and Method for Distributing Applications," Appears in the Proceedings of CASCON '97, November, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 10-13, 1997, pages 82-95.
  
  
• R. Friedrich and J. Rolia, "Applying Performance Engineering to a Distributed Application Monitoring System," Editors A. Schill, C. Mittasch, O. Spaniol, and C. Popien, Distributed Platforms, Chapman and Hall Publishers, 1996, pages 258-271.
  
  
• J. Rolia and R. Friedrich, "Quality of Service Mangement for Federated Applications," Appears in the Proceedings of the 4th International IFIP Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQOS '96), Paris, France, March 6-8 1996, pages 259-270.
  
  
• M. Qin, R. Lee, A. El Rayess, V. Vetland, and J. Rolia, "Automatic Generation of Performance Models for Distributed Application Systems", CD-ROM for CASCON '96, Toronto, November 6-12, 1996.
  
  
• A. El Rayess, V. Vetland, J. Rolia, and J. Black, Improving Cohesiveness and Flexibility in Systems Management Architectures using Distributed Object Technology over the Internet, appears on the CD-ROM for CASCON '96 , Toronto, November 6-12, 1996.
  
  
• G. Franks, S. Majumdar, J. Neilson, D. Petriu, J. Rolia, M. Woodside, "Performance Analysis of Distributed Server Systems", to appear in the Proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Software Quality, Ottawa, Canada, October 28-31, 1996.
  
  
• G. Hills, J. Rolia, G. Serazzi, "Performance Engineering of Distributed Software Process Architectures", lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, No. 977, pp. 79-85, 1995.
  
  
• E. Pozzetti, V. Vetland, J. Rolia, and G. Serazzi, "Characterizing the Resource Demands of TCP/IP", B. Hertzberger, G. Serazzi, Eds., lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, No. 919, 79-85, 1995.
  
  
• C.E. Hrischuk, J. Rolia, C.M. Woodside, "Automatic Generation of a Software Performance Model Using an Object-Oriented Prototype", Proceedings of International Workshop on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'95), Durham, North Carolina, January 1995, pp. 399 - 409.
  
  
• J. Rolia, V. Vetland and G. Hills, "Ensuring Responsiveness and Scalability for Distributed Applications", Proceedings of CASCON '95, October 1995, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  
  
• J. Rolia and V. Vetland, "Parameter Estimation for Performance Models of Distributed Application Systems", Proceedings of CASCON '95 , October 1995, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  
  
• A. El Rayess, J.A. Rolia, and R. McGillivray, "PMMC, a performance modelling center for distributed applications", Proceedings of the IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management Workshop , DSOM '95, Ottawa, October 1995. No page reference is available.
  
  
• J.A. Rolia, V. Vetland, et al, "The Mandas Project", Proceedings IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management Workshop, DSOM '95 , Ottawa, October 1995. No page reference is available.
  
  
• J.A. Rolia and B. Lin, "Consistency Issues in Distributed Application Metrics", Proceedings CASCON '94 , Toronto, Canada, October 31-November 4, 1994.
  
  
• J.A. Rolia, "Distributed Application Performance, Metrics and Management," Open Distributed Processing II (C-20) , J. De Meer, B. Hahr, S. Storp Editors, Elsevier Science B.V. (North-Holland), 1994, IFIP, pages 235-246.
  
  
• J. Rolia, M. Starkey, and G. Boersma, "Modeling RPC Performance", Proceedings of CASCON '93 , Toronto, Canada, October 1993, 677-690.
  
  
• J. Rolia and K.C. Sevcik. "Fast Performance Estimates for a class of Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets", Sixth International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation , Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1992.
  
  

  Technical Reports

• J. Rolia, "Predicting the Performance of Software Systems", CSRI Technical Report 260 , University of Toronto, January, 1992.
  
  

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