Palladio Component Model/Documentation, Tutorials, and Screencasts

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This page bundles documentation on the Palladio Component Model. If you like to know more about Palladio at a high level, have a look into the Features of the PCM and Reasons for Using It.

Screencasts

Screencasts available for PCM-Bench training are listed on palladio-simulator.com

Tutorials

Tutorial Slides

see also [1]

• PCM Introduction and Repositories
• PCM SEFF
• PCM Parameter
• PCM Software Architect und System Deployer
• PCM Domain Expert and Result Interpretation

Lerngruppe slides

• Palladio - architecture and technical overview
• PCM metamodel
• PCM metamodel extension
• PCM – Mapping software models to performance models
• Simulizar - A short introduction
• Peropteryx
• Performance prediction methods
• Resource demand estimation

Introduction and Exercises

• Self-study introduction with exercises, uses a selection of the material presented here plus three tutorial exercises.
• Overview on available solvers and simulations

Use Case-based Walkthrough Example

• Palladio Usecase Tutorial

Documentation

• Palladio Project Wizard
• PCM Event-Based Communication

Papers and Reports

• Overview (28 pages, PDF, 05/2007)
• WOSP-Paper (11 pages, PDF, 02/2007). (Won ACM Best Paper Award at WOSP2007)
• Technical Report (193 pages, PDF, 04/2011) Deals only with the (meta-)model, not the analysis techniques, simulation, and code generation. Contains the generated metamodel documentation.
• Generated Model Documentation, PCM 3.x. (HTML, 01/2008)
• Dissertation Steffen Becker: model concepts, transformations, simulation (2008-07-08)
• Dissertation Heiko Koziolek: model concepts, parameterisation, usage modelling, analytical solvers (2008-07-09)

Related Software

• A complete list of all software in the Palladio context, including
  • PCM2LQN: Transformation from PCM to Layered Queueing Networks (LQN)
  • Java2PCM: Static Java code analysis, which extracts PCM RDSEFFs from Java methods
  • ArchiRec: Static Java code analysis, which extracts PCM Systems from Java code
  • Palladio.ByCounter: An approach for portable bytecode counting at runtime - without the need to instrument the virtual machine (VM)
  • PerOpteryx: Automatic improvement of PCM instances using evolutionary algorithms
  • Chilies: Providing completion library for automatic refinement of PCM instances based on a chain of higher-order transformations.

Scientific publications

Further publications in the Palladio context

Other

• Gather Model Calibration Data and Analyse Log Files
• PCM FAQ for help with problems with the PCM Bench tool (troubleshooting)
• Bridge Building Example Video
• Palladio is part of FAST - The FZI Assessment Toolkit (Link nicht mehr erreichbar)