Download or read book Performance Evaluation: Metrics, Models and Benchmarks written by Samuel Kounev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop, SIPEW 2008, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in June 2008 . The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected out of 39 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on models for software performance engineering; benchmarks and workload characterization; Web services and service-oriented architectures; power and performance; and profiling, monitoring and optimization.