%0 Book Section
%A Tribastone, Mirco
%A Gilmore, Stephen
%B Rigorous Software Engineering for Service-Oriented Systems
%D 2011
%F eprints:2597
%I Springer
%N 6582
%P 486-505
%S Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%T Scaling performance analysis using fluid-flow approximation
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2597/
%X The fluid interpretation of the process calculus PEPA provides a very useful tool for the performance evaluation of large-scale systems because the tractability of the numerical solution does not depend upon the population levels of the system under study. This paper offers a tutorial on how to use this technique by analysing a case study of a service-oriented application to support an e-University infrastructure.
%Z Results of the SENSORIA Project on Software Engineering for Service-Oriented Computing