Computer Performance Evaluation Modelling Techniques and Tools

Performance prediction: An industry perspective.- TANGRAM-II: A performability modeling environment tool.- PENELOPE dependability evaluation and the optimization of performability.- Porting SHARPE on the Web: Design and implementation of a network computing platform using Java.- Storage alternatives for large structured state spaces.- An efficient disk-based tool for solving very large Markov models.- Efficient transient overload tests for real-time systems.- Towards an analytical tool for performance modelling of ATM networks by decomposition.- An embedded network simulator to support network protocols' development.- Synchronized two-way voice simulation tool for internet phone performance analysis and evaluation.- SPNL: Processes as language-oriented building blocks of stochastic Petri nets.- Performance engineering evaluation of object-oriented systems with SPE·ED TM.- Measurement tools and modeling techniques for evaluating web server performance.- Workload characterization of input/output intensive parallel applications.- Interval based workload characterization for distributed systems.- Bounding the loss rates in a multistage ATM switch.- Simple bounds for queues fed by Markovian sources: A tool for performance evaluation.- On queue length moments in fork and join queuing networks with general service times.