Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions

Stephen S. Lavenberg, Mark S. Squillante (auth.), Günter Haring, Christoph Lindemann, Martin Reiser (eds.)3540671935, 9783540671930

This monograph-like state-of-the-art survey presents the history, the key ideas, the success stories, and future challenges of performance evaluation and demonstrates the impact of performance evaluation on a variety of different areas through case studies in a coherent and comprehensive way. Leading researchers in the field have contributed 19 cross-reviewed topical chapters competently covering the whole range of performance evaluation, from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in numerous other fields. Additionally, the book contains one contribution on the role of performance evaluation in industry and personal accounts of four pioneering researchers describing the genesis of breakthrough results.
The book will become a valuable source of reference and indispensable reading for anybody active or interested in performance evaluation.

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Table of contents :
Performance Evaluation in Industry: A Personal Perspective….Pages 3-13
Mainframe Systems….Pages 17-31
Performance Analysis of Storage Systems….Pages 33-50
Ad Hoc, Wireless, Mobile Networks: The Role of Performance Modeling and Evaluation….Pages 51-95
Trace-Driven Memory Simulation: A Survey….Pages 97-139
Performance Issues in Parallel Processing Systems….Pages 141-159
Measurement-Based Analysis of Networked System Availability….Pages 161-199
Performance of Client/Server Systems….Pages 201-218
Performance Characteristics of the World Wide Web….Pages 219-232
Parallel Job Scheduling: A Performance Perspective….Pages 233-252
Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks with Complex Constraints….Pages 253-282
Software Performance Evaluation by Models….Pages 283-304
Performance Analysis of Database Systems….Pages 305-327
Performance Analysis of Concurrency Control Methods….Pages 329-354
Numerical Analysis Methods….Pages 355-376
Product Form Queueing Networks….Pages 377-401
Stochastic Modeling Formalisms for Dependability, Performance and Performability….Pages 403-422
Analysis and Application of Polling Models….Pages 423-442
Discrete-Event Simulation in Performance Evaluation….Pages 443-457
Workload Characterization Issues and Methodologies….Pages 459-482
From the Central Server Model to BEST/1©….Pages 485-489
Mean Value Analysis: A Personal Account….Pages 491-504
The Early Days of GSPNs….Pages 505-512
The Discovery of Self-Similar Traffic….Pages 513-527