Kim, Tae-HyungPurtilo, James M.Many strategies for improving performance of distributed programs can be described abstractly in terms of an application's overall configuration. But previously those techniques would need to be implemented manually, and the resulting programs, though yielding good performance, are more expensive to build and much less easy to reuse. This paper describes research towards an automatic system for introducing performance improvement techniques based upon an application's configuration description. (Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-94-113)en-USTechnical Report