Performance driven architecture development: issues, methods, tools and paradigms

This paper addresses the process of deriving, implementing, and analyzing complex systems architecture. The top-level concerns that take precedence when performance constraints must be met invert the traditional order and concerns within the design process. This paper presents a non-traditional view of systems architecture development which is motivated by the requirement to produce an architecture capable of predictably meeting its time constraints in addition to all the traditional correctness, quality, and maintainability concerns