On Proposing Statecharts to Specify Performance Models

Abstract

This paper shows that Statecharts, a high‐level specification technique, can be used to represent performance models. This is a powerful technique and is based on state‐transition diagrams added with concepts of hierarchy and orthogonality to represent a system behavior. It is shown that Statecharts may conveniently be used to represent models with richness and clarity. Using an analytical approach the technique to determine performance measurements is provided. Three examples are presented and the results show Statecharts’ potential for representing systems for performance evaluation.