@inproceedings{9ee2de0e35894011bd5339de87e58494,
title = "A framework for characterization and analysis of software system scalability",
abstract = "The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic treatment of scalability makes it difficult to evaluate claims of scalability and to compare claims from different sources. This paper presents a framework for precisely characterizing and analyzing the scalability of a software system. The framework treats scalability as a multi-criteria optimization problem and captures the dependency relationships that underlie typical notions of scalability. The paper presents the results of a case study in which the framework and analysis method were applied to a real-world system, demonstrating that it is possible to develop a precise, systematic characterization of scalability and to use the characterization to compare the scalability of alternative system designs.",
keywords = "Design, Microeconomics, Requirements, Scalability",
author = "Leticia Duboc and David Rosenblum and Tony Wicks",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1145/1287624.1287679",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781595938114",
series = "6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007",
pages = "375--384",
booktitle = "6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007",
note = "6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007 ; Conference date: 03-09-2007 Through 07-09-2007",
}