Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 1769

Position Paper.- Performance Evaluation in Industry: A Personal Perspective.- Topical Area Papers.- Mainframe Systems.- Performance Analysis of Storage Systems.- Ad Hoc, Wireless, Mobile Networks: The Role of Performance Modeling and Evaluation.- Trace-Driven Memory Simulation: A Survey.- Performance Issues in Parallel Processing Systems.- Measurement-Based Analysis of Networked System Availability.- Performance of Client/Server Systems.- Performance Characteristics of the World Wide Web.- Parallel Job Scheduling: A Performance Perspective.- Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks with Complex Constraints.- Software Performance Evaluation by Models.- Performance Analysis of Database Systems.- Performance Analysis of Concurrency Control Methods.- Numerical Analysis Methods.- Product Form Queueing Networks.- Stochastic Modeling Formalisms for Dependability, Performance and Performability.- Analysis and Application of Polling Models.- Discrete-Event Simulation in Performance Evaluation.- Workload Characterization Issues and Methodologies.- Personal Accounts of Key Contributors.- From the Central Server Model to BEST/1©.- Mean Value Analysis: A Personal Account.- The Early Days of GSPNs.- The Discovery of Self-Similar Traffic.

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