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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kemper, Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sanders, William H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2794
• Subjects: Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Computer simulation.; Electrical engineering.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Software Engineering.; Simulation and Modeling.; Electrical Engineering.

We are pleased to present the proceedings of Performance TOOLS 2003, the 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation. The series of TOOLS conferences has provided a forum for our community of performance engineers with all their diverse interes...

Table of Contents:

• 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
• MIBA: A Micro-Benchmark Suite for Evaluating InfiniBand Architecture Implementations
• WebAppLoader: 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.