The Vision of Self-Aware Performance Models

Performance models are necessary components of self-aware computing systems, as they allow such systems to reason about their own state and behavior. Research in this field has developed a multitude of approaches to create, maintain, and solve performance models. In this paper, we propose a meta-self-aware computing approach making the processes of model creation, maintenance and solution themselves self-aware. This enables the automated selection and adaption of software performance engineering approaches specifically tailored to the system under study.