QPME - New tool for performance modeling and analysis using Queueing Petri Nets

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the release of QPME 1.0 (Queueing Petri net 
Modeling Environment), a performance modeling and analysis tool based on 
the queueing Petri net modeling formalism. Queueing Petri nets combine 
the modeling power and expressiveness of queueing networks and 
generalized stochastic Petri nets. This provides a number of important 
benefits since it makes it possible to model systems at a higher degree 
of accuracy.

QPME is made of two components: QPE (Queueing Petri net Editor) and 
SimQPN (Simulator for Queueing Petri Nets). QPE provides a user-friendly 
graphical tool for modeling using queueing Petri nets based on the 
Eclipse/GEF framework. SimQPN provides an efficient discrete-event 
simulation engine for queueing Petri nets that makes it possible to 
analyze models of realistically-sized systems. QPME runs on a wide range 
of platforms including Windows, Linux and Solaris among others.

The following paper provides an overview of the tool 
http://www.dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/staff/skounev/pub/06-qest-QPME.pdf
More detailed information and User's Guide can be found at 
http://www.dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/staff/skounev/QPME/index.html

The tool is available free-of-charge for non-profit research organizations.

Best regards,

Samuel Kounev

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Samuel Kounev, PhD
Research Fellow
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 0FD, UK

Tel:   +44 (1223) 7 63687
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Email: Samuel.Kounev@xxxxxxxxxxxx or skounev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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