Performance evaluation : origins and directions /

This monograph-like state-of-the-art survey presents the history, the key ideas, the success stories, and future challenges of performance evaluation and demonstrates the impact of performance evaluation on a variety of different areas through case studies in a coherent and comprehensive way. Leadin...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Haring, Günter, 1943-, Lindemann, Christoph, Reiser, Martin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2000]
Series:Lecture notes in computer science ; 1769.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Performance evaluation in industry : a personal perspective / Stephen S. Lavenberg, Mark S. Squillante
  • Mainframe systems / Jeffrey P. Buzen
  • Performance analysis of storage systems / Elizabeth Shriver, Bruce K. Hillyer, Avi Silberschatz
  • Ad hoc, wireless, mobile networks : the role of performance modeling and evaluation / Mario Gerla [and others]
  • Trace-driven memory simulation : a survey / Richard A. Uhlig, Trevor N. Mudge
  • Performance issues in parallel processing systems / Luiz A. DeRose [and others]
  • Measurement-based analysis of networked system availability / Ravishankar K. Iyer, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Mahesh Kalyanakrishnan
  • Performance of client/server systems / Daniel A. Menascé, Virgilio A.F. Almeida
  • Performance characteristics of the World Wide Web / Mark E. Crovella
  • Parallel job scheduling : a performance perspective / Shikharesh Majumdar, Eric W. Parsons
  • Scheduling of real-time tasks with complex constraints / Seonho Choi, Ashok K. Agrawala
  • Software performance evaluation by models / Murray Woodside
  • Performance analysis of database systems / Alexander Thomasian
  • Performance analysis of concurrency control methods / Alexander Thomasian
  • Numerical analysis methods / William J. Stewart
  • Product form queueing networks / Simonetta Balsamo
  • Stochastic modeling formalisms for dependability, performance and performability / Katerina Goševa-Popstojanova, Kishor Trivedi
  • Analysis and application of polling models / Hideaki Takagi
  • Discrete-event simulation in performance evaluation / David M. Nicol
  • Workload characterization issues and methodologies / Maria Calzarossa, Luisa Massari, Daniele Tessera
  • From the central server model to BEST/1 / Jeffrey P. Buzen
  • Mean value analysis : a personal account / Martin Reiser
  • The early days of GSPNs / Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianfranco Balbo, Gianni Conte
  • The discovery of self-similar traffic / Walter Willinger.