modelling techniques and tools : 9th international conference, Tools '98, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 14-18, 1998 : proceedings
Ramon Puigjaner, Nunzio N. Savino, Bartomeu Serra (eds.).
Berlin [etc.]
Springer
1998
XIII, 376 str. : ilustr. ; 24 cm.
Lecture notes in computer science, 1469.
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Invited Paper.- A Modular and Scalable Simulation Tool for Large Wireless Networks.- Software Performance Tools.- Designing Process Replication and Threading Policies: A Quantitative Approach.- SREPT: Software Reliability Estimation and Prediction Tool.- Reusable Software Components for Performability Tools, and Their Utilization for Web-Based Configurable Tools.- Compositional Performance Modelling with the TIPPtool.- Network Performance.- QNA-MC: A Performance Evaluation Tool for Communication Networks with Multicast Data Streams.- Response Times in Client-Server Systems.- A Queueing Model with Varying Service Rate for ABR.- Simulative Performance Evaluation of the Temporary Pseudonym Method for Protecting Location Information in GSM Networks.- Measurement and Modelling Tools.- A Model Driven Monitoring Approach to Support the Multi-view Performance Analysis of Parallel Responsive Applications.- Instrumentation of Synchronous Reactive Systems for Performance Analysis: A Case Study.- Algorithmic Techniques.- A Perturbation and Reduction Based Algorithm.- A Comparison of Numerical Splitting-based Methods for Markovian Dependability and Performability Models.- Probability, Parallelism and the State Space Exploration Problem.- An Improved Multiple Variable Inversion Algorithm for Reliability Calculation.- Case Studies.- Performance Evaluation of Web Proxy Cache Replacement Policies.- Performance Analysis of a WDM Bus Network Based on GSPN Models?.- Scheduling Write Backs for Weakly-Connected Mobile Clients.- On Choosing a Task Assignment Policy for a Distributed Server System.- Petri Net Techniques.- Structured Characterization of the Markov Chain of Phase-Type SPN.- Markov Regenerative Stochastic Petri Nets with General Execution Policies: Supplementary Variable Analysis and a Prototype Tool.- MVA Techniques.- A Queue-Shift Approximation Technique for Product-Form Queueing Networks.- Experiments with Improved Approximate Mean Value Analysis Algorithms.- Software Performance Evaluation Methods.- Extending SMART2 to Predict the Behaviour of PL/SQL-based Applications.- Performance Evaluation of Distributed Object Architectures.- Performance Engineering Evaluation of CORBA-based Distributed Systems with SPE*ED.- Tool Presentations.- Edinet: An Execution Driven Interconnection Network Simulator for DSM Systems.- Snuffle: Integrated Measurement and Analysis Tool for Internet and its Use in Wireless In-House Environment.- A Tool to Model Network Transient States with the Use of Diffusion Approximation.- HIMAP: Architecture, Features, and Hierarchical Model Specification Techniques.- SvPablo: A Multi-language Performance Analysis System.- A Toolbox for Functional and Quantitative Analysis of DEDS.- A Reconfigurable Hardware Tool for High Speed Network Simulation.- JAGATH: A Methodology and its Application for Distributed Systems Performance Evaluation and Control.- Hierarchical Stochastic Reward Net Solver Package.