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HP-CPN Centre

Hewlett-Packard Centre for Modelling, Validation, and Capacity Planning of Concurrent and Distributed Systems by means of Coloured Petri Nets

Partners:: CPN Group at DAIMI
Hewlett-Packard
Danish National Centre for IT-Research

Duration: January 1998 - December 2002

Size: 45 man-years; $ 3,500,000

In the media:: Press Release, Ultimo January (in Danish)
Aarhus Stiftstidende, January 30 (in Danish)
Aarhus Stiftstidende, January 31, Editorial (in Danish)

The Centre focuses on the application of Coloured Petri Nets (CP-nets or CPN) for analysis of systems. The work is organised as a number of projects in which CP-nets are used for modelling, validation and/or capacity planning of systems. A typical project runs for 6-12 months and cooperate with an ongoing HP activity. A project could, e.g., be the design and validation of the communication patterns in a new system, or it could be capacity planning of a system. The longer projects are divided into a number of subprojects with intermediate milestones and deliverables. Usually, there are one or two main projects running at a time. In addition another project may be in the preparation/start phase. The individual projects are defined shortly before their start. This is necessary in order to integrate the projects with the most suitable activities within Hewlett-Packard.

The first projects will be selected within some of the following areas:

Capacity planning for Internet Service Provider (ISP) management tool
Capacity planning for general distributed application management
Design trade-off and performance analysis in software design
Telecom switch design analysis and validation

The Centre is a continuation and extension of the CAPLAN project which dealt with Capacity Planning of Distributed Systems Environments. The Centre is financed by grants from CIT and from Hewlett-Packard.

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company designs, manufactures and services products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The basic business purpose is to create information products that accelerate the advancement of knowledge and improve the effectiveness of people and organisations. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in more than 120 countries.

Project Group

Research managers:: Kurt Jensen, Prof., Dr. Scient., DAIMI
Phone: +45 8942 5612, E-mail: kjensen@daimi.au.dk
Søren Christensen, Assoc. Prof., PhD, DAIMI
Phone: +45 8942 5627, E-mail: schristensen@daimi.au.dk
Business manager:: Janice Bogorad, Hewlett-Packard, Copenhagen
Phone: +45 4599 1355, E-mail: janice_bogorad@hp.com
Other senior members of the project group:: Kjeld H. Mortensen, PostDoc., DAIMI (khm@daimi.au.dk)
Lars M. Kristensen, PostDoc., DAIMI (kris@daimi.au.dk)
Bo Lindstrøm, Cand. Scient., PhD student, DAIMI (blind@daimi.au.dk)
Lisa Wells, Cand. Scient., PhD student, DAIMI (wells@daimi.au.dk)
Thomas Mailund Jensen, PhD student, DAIMI (mailund@daimi.au.dk)
Jorge C A de Figueiredo, Vising PostDoc, Brazil (abrantes@daimi.au.dk)

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