Computer Performance Evaluation. Modelling Techniques and Tools: 13th International Conference, TOOLS 2003, Urbana, IL, USA, September 2-5, 2003, Proceedings

by Peter Kemper (editor)

Keynote Presentation.- Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Worm Effects on the Internet Routing Infrastructure.- Tools for Measuring, Benchmarking, and Online Control.- A Low-Cost Infrastructure for High Precision High Volume Performance Measurements of Web Clusters.- A Micro-Benchmark Suite for Evaluating InfiniBand Architecture Implementations.- A Simulation Tool Set for Evaluating Web Application Performance.- A Comprehensive Toolset for Workload Characterization, Performance Modeling, and Online Control.- Tools for Evaluation of Stochastic Models.- Logical and Stochastic Modeling with Smart.- The Peps Software Tool.- The Modest Modeling Tool and Its Implementation.- Queueing Models.- An M/G/1 Queuing System with Multiple Vacations to Assess the Performance of a Simplified Deficit Round Robin Model.- Queueing Models with Maxima of Service Times.- Heuristic Optimization of Scheduling and Allocation for Distributed Systems with Soft Deadlines.- Markovian Arrival Processes and Phase-Type Distributions.- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Representing General Distributions by Coxians.- A Closed-Form Solution for Mapping General Distributions to Minimal PH Distributions.- An EM-Algorithm for MAP Fitting from Real Traffic Data.- The Correlation Region of Second-Order MAPs with Application to Queueing Network Decomposition.- Supporting Model-Based Design of Systems.- EvalVid - A Framework for Video Transmission and Quality Evaluation.- A Class-Based Least-Recently Used Caching Algorithm for World-Wide Web Proxies.- Performance Analysis of a Software Design Using the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time.

324 pages, Paperback

First published September 29, 2003