Software resource architecture and performance evaluation of software architectures

Performance is determined by a system´s resources and its workload. Some of these resources are software resources which are embedded in the software architecture; some of them are even created by the software architecture. This paper considers software resources and resource architecture, as an aspect of software architecture. It considers how resource architecture emerges, the relationship of software and hardware resources, some classes of resource architecture, and what they can tell us about system performance.