Programme
Invited Speakers
Connie U. Smith Performance Engineering Services
Talk Title: Back to the Future: Can We Get There In Time?
Abstract: Performance evaluation techniques have been successfully applied to computer software and hardware systems for many years. In recent years, however, there has been a decline in the number of people and organizations applying these techniques to the computer systems that need them. Nevertheless, researchers in performance evaluation continue to contribute significant new techniques and tools that advance the state of the art. We examine factors that have led to this disparity and some strategies and techniques for significantly improving the situation.
Short Biography: Dr. Connie U. Smith, a principal consultant of the Performance Engineering Services Division of L&S Computer Technology, Inc., is known for her work in defining the field of Software Performance Engineering (SPE) and integrating SPE into the development of new software systems. Dr. Smith received the Computer Measurement Group's prestigious AA Michelson Award for technical excellence and professional contributions for her SPE work. She also authored the original SPE book: Performance Engineering of Software Systems, published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley, and approximately 100 scientific papers. She is the creator of the SPE-ED™ performance engineering tool. She has over 25 years of experience in the practice, teaching, research and development of the SPE performance prediction techniques.
Marco Gribaudo Università di Torino
Talk Title: Analysis of Large Systems with Mean Field and Markovian Agents
Abstract: The necessity of studying sensor networks, rich internet applications, social networks and molecular biology have raised the need of being able to consider systems composed by very large population of similar objects. This lead to the development of new modelling paradigms, such as Fluid Process Algebra, Mean Field analysis and Markovian Agents. These methodologies produces exact results if the number of considered objects goes to the infinity, but provide reasonable approximations even for finite quantities. In this work Mean Field analysis and Markovian Agents models will be presented.
Short Biography: Dr. Marco Gribaudo has been a Senior Researcher (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science and the University of Turin since 2005. Since gaining his PhD in 2002 on a "Hybrid Formalism for Performance Evaluation", he has published widely in areas such as fluid performance analysis and product form analysis in GSPNs. He has a track record in applying theoretical performance techniques to practical applications such as peer-to-peer networks and mobile phone data networks. He has published approximately 70 journal and conference papers in the field of performance analysis and engineering.
Programme
Wednesday 8th July 2009
- 1700–1900: EPEW Reception in Huxley Computing Common Room
Thursday 9th July 2009
- 0930: Registration
- 1000: Welcome
- 1010: Keynote: Back to the Future: Can We Get There In Time? Connie U. Smith
- 1100: Tea and Coffee break
- 1115: Tagged Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. Gianfranco Balbo, Massimiliano De Pierro and Giuliana Franceschinis
- 1140: Modelling Zoned RAID Systems using Fork-Join Queueing Simulation. Abigail Lebrecht, Nicholas Dingle and William Knottenbelt
- 1205: Performance of auctions and sealed bids. Erol Gelenbe and Laszlo Gyorfi
- 1230: Lunch at Jakobs
- 1400: Applying Symbolic Techniques to the Representation of non-Markovian Models with Continuous PH Distributions. Francesco Longo and Marco Scarpa
- 1425: Mean value analysis for a class of PEPA models. Nigel Thomas and Yishi Zhao
- 1450: Automatic Generation of Performance Analysis Results: Requirements and Demonstration. Connie U. Smith, Catalina M. Lladó and Ramon Puigjaner
- 1515: Tea and Coffee break
- 1545: Analytical Model of Traffic Compression in the UMTS network. Maciej Stasiak, Piotr Zwierzykowski, Janusz Wiewióra and Damian Parniewicz
- 1610: From DFTs to PEPA: a Model-to-Model Transformation. Leïla Kloul
- 1635–1700: Passage-end Analysis. Allan Clark, Stephen Gilmore and Adam Duguid
- 1730–1900: Social event
- 1930–2200: Dinner at Wodka
Friday 10th July 2009
- 0910: Keynote: Analysis of Large Systems with Mean Field and Markovian Agents Marco Gribaudo
- 1000: Stochastic monotonicity in queueing networks. Hind Castel and Nihal Pekergin
- 1025: Tea and Coffee break
- 1040: Fast Generation of Scale Free Networks with Directed Arcs. Huqiu Zhang and Aad van Moorsel
- 1105: A more realistic Peer-to-Peer Grid Market Model. Uli Harder and Fernando Martinez Ortuno
- 1130: Migrating Auctioneers on Internet Auctions for Improved Utility and Performance. Ricardo Lent
- 1200: Lunch at Jakobs
- 1330: Analytical Model of the Soft Handoff Mechanism in the UMTS network. Maciej Stasiak, Piotr Zwierzykowski and Damian Parniewicz
- 1355: Analytical Model of TCP NewReno through a Continuous-Time Markov Chain. Nimbe L. Ewald
- 1420: Tea and Coffee break
- 1435: Packet Loss Analysis of Load-Balancing Switch with ON/OFF Input Processes. Yury Audzevich, Levente Bodrog, Yoram Ofek and Miklos Telek
- 1500: Approximate Analysis of a Round Robin Scheduling Scheme for Network Coding. Omer H. Abdelrahman and Erol Gelenbe
- 1525: Close
