Modeling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation

Modelling Tools.- The Challenge of Combining Text and Graphics in Modelling Support Environment.- Compiling Techniques for the Analysis of Stochastic Petri Nets.- PANACEA: An Integrated Set of Tools for Performance Analysis.- Distributed Systems Design: an Integrated Software Tool for Performance Analysis.- Towards a Performance Modelling Environment: News on HIT.- Networking.- LANSF - A Modular Approach for Modeling Low-level Communication Protocols.- IPwatch: A Tool for Monitoring Network Locality.- QUARTZ: A Tool for Performance Evaluation of Data Networks.- Architecture and Workload.- TEL: A versatile Tool for Emulating system Load.- A Tool for Performance-Driven Design of Parallel Systems.- Protocols.- Performance Analysis of a Buffer under Locking Protocols.- Average Message Delay of an Asymmetric Single-Buffer Polling System with Round-Robin Scheduling of Services.- On a Multi-Class Queue with Class Dependent Window-Flow Control.- Architecture Configuration.- Solving some Practical Problems of Computing System Configuration and Design by Throughput Control in Closed Separable Queueing Networks.- Modeling DASD Configurations with Multipathing and Multiple Blocking Points.- A Unified Approach to the Performace Evaluation of Multiprocessors.- A Hardware Instrumentation Approach for Performance Measurement of a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor".- Parallelism.- Artificial Intelligence Modelling of Complex Systems.- PEPS: A Package for Solving Complex Markov Models of Parallel Systems.- Performance of Concurrent Redezvous Systems with Complex Performance Structures.- On the Tradeoff between Parallelism and Communication.- Performability.- PROPER, A Performability Modelling and Analysis Tool.- Petri Nets Generating Markov Reward Models for Performance/Reliability Analysis of Degradable Systems.- Failure Data Analysis of a Computer System.- Algorithms.- Fast Approximate Solution of Queueing Networks with Multi-Server Chain-Dependent FCFS Queues.- A Universal Maximum Entropy Algorithm for General Multiple Class Open Networks with Mixed Service Disciplines.- Piecewise Approximation of Densities Applying the Principle of Maximum Entropy: Waiting Times in G/G/1-Systems.- Two-Stage Cyclic Network with Blocking: Cycle Time Distribution and Equivalent Properties.

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