Computer Performance Engineering: 5th European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2008, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 24-25, 2008. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Boudewijn R. Haverkort (auth.), Nigel Thomas, Carlos Juiz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5261
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2008, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in September 24-25, 2008.

The 17 papers presented in this volume, together with abstracts of 2 invited papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The topics covered are software performance engineering; stochastic process algebra and SANs; performance query specification and measurement; computer and communications networks; queueing theory and Markov chains; and applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Performance and Dependability Evaluation: Successes, Failures and Challenges....Pages 1-1
Partial Evaluation of PEPA Models for Fluid-Flow Analysis....Pages 2-16
An Empirical Investigation of the Applicability of a Component-Based Performance Prediction Method....Pages 17-31
A Calibration Framework for Capturing and Calibrating Software Performance Models....Pages 32-47
Performance Evaluation of Embedded ECA Rule Engines: A Case Study....Pages 48-63
Towards State Space Reduction Based on T-Lumpability-Consistent Relations....Pages 64-78
A Ticking Clock: Performance Analysis of a Circadian Rhythm with Stochastic Process Algebra....Pages 79-94
Assembly Code Analysis Using Stochastic Process Algebra....Pages 95-109
Product Form Steady-State Distribution for Stochastic Automata Networks with Domino Synchronizations....Pages 110-124
State-Aware Performance Analysis with eXtended Stochastic Probes....Pages 125-140
Natural Language Specification of Performance Trees....Pages 141-151
Recurrent Method for Blocking Probability Calculation in Multi-service Switching Networks with BPP Traffic....Pages 152-167
An Approximate Model of the WCDMA Interface Servicing a Mixture of Multi-rate Traffic Streams with Priorities....Pages 168-180
Performance Analysis of Dynamic Priority Shifting....Pages 181-196
Performance Analysis of a Priority Queue with Place Reservation and General Transmission Times....Pages 197-211
Analysis of BMAP / G /1 Vacation Model of Non- M / G /1-Type....Pages 212-226
Stochastic Bounds for Partially Generated Markov Chains: An Algebraic Approach....Pages 227-241
Evaluation of P2P Algorithms for Probabilistic Trust Inference in a Web of Trust....Pages 242-256
Approximation for Multi-service Systems with Reservation by Systems with Limited-Availability....Pages 257-267
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

System Performance and Evaluation; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Software Engineering; Programming Techniques; Models and Principles