Möbius Documentation

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Papers

On Integrating the Möbius and Modest Modeling Tools.
H. Bohnenkamp, T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, H. Hermanns, J.-P. Katoen, R. Klaren, V. V. Lam, and W. H. Sanders. (03BOH01)
Tool paper in the Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, San Francisco, CA, June 22-25, 2003, p.671. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Simulation Debugging and Visualization in the Möbius Modeling Framework.
C. T. Buchanan. (14BUC01)
Master's thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.

Simulation Debugging and Visualization in the Möbius Modeling Framework.
C. Buchanan and K. Keefe. (14BUC02)
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2014), Florence, Italy, Sept. 8-10, 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8657 (G. Norman and W. Sanders, Eds.), pp. 226-240. Springer, 2014. [Springer Link entry]

Result Specification and Model Connection in the Möbius Modeling Framework.
A. L. Christensen. (00CHR01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 2000.

The Möbius Modeling Tool.
G. Clark, T. Courtney, D. Daly, D. Deavours, S. Derisavi, J. M. Doyle, W. H. Sanders, and P. Webster. (01CLA01)
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models, Aachen, Germany, September 11-14, 2001, pp. 241-250. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Implementing a Stochastic Process Algebra within the Möbius Modeling Framework.
G. Clark and W. H. Sanders. (01CLA02)
in Luca de Alfaro and Stephen Gilmore (Eds.), Process Algebra and Probabilistic Methods: Performance Modelling and Verification: Proceedings of the Joint International Workshop, PAPM-PROBMIV 2001, RWTH Aachen, Germany, September 12-14, 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 2165, Berlin: Springer, 2001, pp. 200-215.

The Möbius Modeling Environment: Recent Developments.
T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, S. Gaonkar, M. Griffith, V. Lam, and W. H. Sanders. (04COU01)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2004), Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27-30, 2004, pp. 328-329. [IEEE Xplore entry]

The Möbius Modeling Environment.
T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, V. Lam, and W. H. Sanders. (03COU01)
Tools of the 2003 Illinois International Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems, Universität Dortmund Fachbereich Informatik research report no. 781/2003, 2003, pp. 34-37.

The Möbius Modeling Environment: Recent Extensions - 2005.
T. Courtney, S. Derisavi, S. Gaonkar, M. Griffith, V. Lam, M. McQuinn, E. Rozier, and W. H. Sanders. (05COU02)
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2005), Torino, Italy, September 19-22, 2005, pp. 259-260. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Data Analysis and Visualization within the Möbius Modeling Environment.
T. Courtney, S. Gaonkar, M. Griffith, V. Lam, M. McQuinn, E. Rozier, and W. H. Sanders. (06COU01)
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST), Riverside, CA, Sept. 11-14, 2006, pp. 137-138. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Möbius 2.3: An Extensible Tool for Dependability, Security, and Performance Evaluation of Large and Complex System Models.
T. Courtney, S. Gaonkar, K. Keefe, E. W. D. Rozier, and W. H. Sanders. (08COU01)
Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29-July 2, 2009, pp. 353-358. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Design of Experiments within the Möbius Modeling Framework.
T. Courtney, S. Gaonkar, M. G. McQuinn, E. Rozier, W. H. Sanders, and P. Webster. (07COU01)
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2007, Edinburgh, UK, Sept. 16-19, 2007, pp. 161-162. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Analysis of Connection as a Decomposition Technique.
D. Daly. (01DAL01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 2001.

Möbius: An Extensible Tool for Performance and Dependability Modeling.
D. Daly, D. D. Deavours, J. M. Doyle, A. J. Stillman, and P. G. Webster. (99DAL01)
Digest of FastAbstracts presented at the 29th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-29), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 15-18, 1999, pp. 15-16.

Möbius: An Extensible Framework for Performance and Dependability Modeling.
D. Daly, D. D. Deavours, J. M. Doyle, A. J. Stillman, P. G. Webster, and W. H. Sanders. (99DAL02)
Tool Descriptions from the Multi-Workshop on Formal Methods in Performance Evaluation and Applications, Zaragoza, Spain, September 6-10, 1999.

Möbius: An Extensible Tool for Performance and Dependability Modeling.
D. Daly, D. D. Deavours, J. M. Doyle, P. G. Webster, and W. H. Sanders. (99DAL03)
Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, TOOLS 2000, Schaumburg, IL, March 27-31, 2000. In B. R. Haverkort, H. C. Bohnenkamp, and C. U. Smith (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1786, pp. 332-336. Berlin: Springer, 2000.

Modeling of Service-level Agreements for Composed Services.
D. Daly, G. Kar, and W. H. Sanders. (02DAL02)
Management Technologies for E-Commerce and E-Business Applications: Proceedings of the 13th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management, DSOM 2002, Montreal, Canada, October 21-23, 2002, pp. 4-15.

A Connection Formalism for the Solution of Large and Stiff Models.
D. Daly and W. H. Sanders. (00DAL01)
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Simulation Symposium, Seattle, WA, April 22-26, 2001, pp. 258-265. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Formal Specification of the Möbius Modeling Framework.
D. D. Deavours. (01DEA03)
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois, 2001.

The Möbius Framework and Its Implementation.
D. D. Deavours, G. Clark, T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, J. M. Doyle, W. H. Sanders, and P. G. Webster. (01DEA05)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 28, no. 10, October 2002, pp. 956-969. [IEEE Xplore entry]

An Efficient Disk-based Tool for Solving Large Markov Models.
D. D. Deavours and W. H. Sanders. (98DEA01)
Performance Evaluation, vol. 33, 1998, pp. 67-84.

An Efficient Disk-based Tool for Solving Very Large Markov Models.
D. D. Deavours and W. H. Sanders. (96DEA02)
Raymond Marie et al. (Eds.), Computer Performance Evaluation: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools (TOOLS '97), St. Malo, France, June 3-6, 1997 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 1245), Berlin: Springer, 1997, pp. 58-71.

An Efficient Well-Specified Check.
D. D. Deavours and W. H. Sanders. (99DEA01)
Proceedings of PNPM'99: 8th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models, Zaragoza, Spain, September 8-10, 1999, pp. 124-133. [IEEE Xplore entry]

The Möbius Execution Policy.
D. D. Deavours and W. H. Sanders. (01DEA02)
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models, Aachen, Germany, September 11-14, 2001, pp. 135-144. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Möbius: Framework and Atomic Models.
D. D. Deavours and W. H. Sanders. (01DEA01)
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models, Aachen, Germany, September 11-14, 2001, pp. 251-260. [IEEE Xplore entry]

"On-the-Fly" Solution Techniques for Stochastic Petri Nets and Extensions.
D. D. Deavours and W. H. Sanders. (96DEA01)
Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models (PNPM '97), Saint Malo, France, June 3-6, 1997, pp. 132-141. [IEEE Xplore entry]

"On-the-Fly" Solution Techniques for Stochastic Petri Nets and Extensions.
D. D. Deavours and W. H. Sanders. (97DEA02)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 24, no. 10, October 1998, pp. 889-902. [IEEE Xplore entry]

The Möbius State-Level Abstract Functional Interface.
S. Derisavi. (03DER02)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

Optimal State-Space Lumping in Markov Chains.
S. Derisavi, H. Hermanns, and W. H. Sanders. (02DER01)
Information Processing Letters, vol. 87, no. 6, September 30, 2003, pp. 309-315.

Integrating Analysis Techniques in Möbius: Experiences with Interfaces.
S. Derisavi and P. Kemper. (03DER04)
Proceedings of ICALP 2003 Satellite Workshop on Stochastic Petri Nets and Related Formalisms (Universität Dortmund Research Report No. 780), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 28-29, 2003, p. 170.

The Möbius State-level Abstract Functional Interface.
S. Derisavi, P. Kemper, W. H. Sanders, and T. Courtney. (01DER01)
Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, TOOLS 2002, London, UK, April 14-17, 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2324 (T. Field, P. G. Harrison, J. Bradley, and U. Harder, eds.), Berlin: Springer, pp. 31-50.

The Möbius State-level Abstract Functional Interface.
S. Derisavi, P. Kemper, W. H. Sanders, and T. Courtney. (02DER02)
Performance Evaluation, vol. 54, no. 2, October 2003, pp. 105-128.

Abstract Model Specification Using the Möbius Modeling Tool.
J. M. Doyle. (00DOY01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 2000.

Enterprise Security Metrics with the ADVISE Meta Model Formalism.
B. Feddersen, K. Keefe, W. H. Sanders, C. Muehrcke, D. Parks, A. Crapo, A. Gabaldon, and R. Palla. (15FED02)
Proceedings of SECURWARE 2015: The Ninth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, Venice, Italy, Aug. 23-28, 2015, pp. 65-66.

An Ontological Model for Constructing Mobius ADVISE Security Models.
B. Feddersen, K. Keefe, W. H. Sanders, C. Muehrcke, D. Parks, A. Crapo, A. Gabaldon, and R. Palla. (15FED01)
Fast Abstract at the 45th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 22-25, 2015. (Presented but not published in a proceedings.)

Implementing the ADVISE Security Modeling Formalism in Möbius.
M. D. Ford, K. Keefe, E. LeMay, W. H. Sanders, and C. Muehrcke. (12FOR04)
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Budapest, Hungary, June 24-27, 2013, pp. 1-8. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Performance and Dependability Modeling with Möbius.
S. Gaonkar, K. Keefe, R. Lamprecht, E. Rozier, P. Kemper, and W. H. Sanders. (08GAO03)
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 36, no. 4, March 2009, pp. 16-21. [ACM DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1530873.1530878]

Design and Implementation of an Extensible Tool for Performance and Dependability Model Evaluation.
G. P. Kavanaugh III. (98GP01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 1998.

Performance Analysis of Two Time-based Coordinated Checkpointing Protocols.
G. P. Kavanaugh and W. H. Sanders. (97GP01)
Proceedings of the 1997 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Systems (PRFTS), December 15-16, 1997, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 194-201. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Remote Job Management in the Möbius Modeling Framework.
K. Keefe, Q. Mitchell, E. Rozier, and W. H. Sanders. (09GUL01)
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2009, Budapest, Hungary, September 13-16, 2009, pp. 209-210. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Möbius Shell: A Command-line Interface for Möbius.
K. Keefe and W. H. Sanders. (13KEE01)
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2013), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 27-30, 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8054, Springer, pp. 282-285.

Reliability Analysis with Dynamic Reliability Block Diagrams in the Möbius Modeling Tool.
K. Keefe and W. H. Sanders. (15KEE01)
Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS), Berlin, Germany, Dec. 14-16, 2015, pp. 164-170.

Measure-Adaptive State-Space Construction Methods.
W. D. Obal II (98OBA04)
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona, 1998.

Measure-Adaptive State-Space Construction.
W. D. Obal II and W. H. Sanders. (99OBA01)
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium (IPDS 2K), March 27-29, 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 25-34. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Measure-Adaptive State-Space Construction.
W. D. Obal II and W. H. Sanders. (00OBA01)
Performance Evaluation, Special Issue on IPDS 2000, vol. 44, April 2001, pp. 237-258.

State-Space Support for Path-based Reward Variables.
W. D. Obal II and W. H. Sanders. (98OBA01)
Proceedings of the 1998 International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium (IPDS '98), September 7-9, 1998, Durham, North Carolina, USA, pp. 228-237. [IEEE Xplore entry]

State-Space Support for Path-based Reward Variables.
W. D. Obal II and W. H. Sanders. (98OBA02)
Performance Evaluation, vol. 35, 1999, pp. 233-251.

Möbius: An Integrated Discrete-Event Modeling Environment.
J. Peccoud, T. Courtney, and W. H. Sanders. (07PEC01)
Bioinformatics, vol. 23, no. 24, 2007, pp. 3412-3414.

Integrated Frameworks for Multi-Level and Multi-Formalism Modeling.
W. H. Sanders. (99SAN01)
Proceedings of PNPM'99: 8th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models, Zaragoza, Spain, September 8-10, 1999, pp. 2-9. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Multi-formalism and Multi-solution-method Modeling Frameworks: The Möbius Approach.
W. H. Sanders, T. Courtney, D. Deavours, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, and V. Lam. (03SAN01)
Proceedings of the Symposium on Performance Evaluation - Stories and Perspectives, Vienna, Austria, December 5-6, 2003, pp. 241-256.

Stochastic Activity Networks: Formal Definitions and Concepts.
W. H. Sanders and J. F. Meyer. (01SAN02)
in E. Brinksma, H. Hermanns, and J. P. Katoen (Eds.), Lectures on Formal Methods and Performance Analysis, First EEF/Euro Summer School on Trends in Computer Science, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands, July 3-7, 2000, Revised Lectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 2090, pp. 315-343. Berlin: Springer, 2001.

Overview: An Integrated Framework for Performance Engineering and Resource-Aware Compilation.
W. H. Sanders, C. Polychronopoulos, T. Huang, T. Courtney, D. Daly, D. Deavours, and S. Derisavi. (02SAN01)
Proceedings of the NSF Next Generation Systems Program Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 15, 2002.

State-Space Generation Techniques in the Möbius Modeling Framework.
J. M. Sowder. (98SOW01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 1998.

Model Composition within the Möbius Modeling Framework.
A. J. Stillman. (99STI01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 1999.

Design of Experiments in the Möbius Modeling Framework.
P. G. Webster. (02WEB01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 2002.

Discrete Event Simulation in the Möbius Modeling Framework.
A. L. Williamson. (98WIL01)
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois, 1998.


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