Preliminary Workshop Program
Thursday, October 14, 2010
| 14:00 | Workshop Opening (Karin Anna Hummel and Günter Haring)
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| 14:30-16:00 | Session "Milestones and Evolutions" (Helmut Hlavacs)
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| Raymond Marie. Deceptions and Delectations, Fears and Hopes Induced by a Few Decades in Performance Evaluation (slides). |
| Connie Smith and Catalina M. Lladó. Milestones and Evolution of Model Interoperability for Performance Engineering (slides). |
| Giuliano Casale, Marco Gribaudo, and Giuseppe Serazzi. Tools for Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems: Historical Evolution and Perspectives (slides). |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30-18:00
| Session "Trends: Green ICT and Virtual Machines"
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| Jean-Marc Pierson. Energy: A New Criteria for Performances in Large Scale Systems (slides). |
| Carlos Juiz and Ramon Puigjaner. From the Origins of Performance Evaluation to New Green ICT Performance Engineering (slides). |
| Robert Geist, Zachary Jones, and James Westall. Predicting Performance with Virtual Machines (slides). |
18:30
| Reception @ Aula - Wine tasting
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Friday, October 15, 2010
09:00-10:30
| Session "Modeling I" (Raymond Marie) |
| Patrick Wüchner, Janos Sztrik, and Hermann de Meer. Modeling Wireless Sensor Networks Using Finite-Source Retrial Queues with Unreliable Orbit. |
| Ning Liu and William Stewart. Markov Chains and Spectral Clustering (slides). |
| Demetres D. Kouvatsos. On the Analysis of Queues with Heavy Tails: A Non-Extensive Maximum Entropy Formalism and a Generalisation of the Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session "Modeling II" (Hermann de Meer)
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| Alois Ferscha. Scenario Based Modeling for Very Large Scale Simulations. |
| Edmundo de Souza E Silva, Rosa Leao, and Richard Muntz. Performance Evaluation with Hidden Markov Models. |
| Ioannis Stavrakakis. Network Protocol Performance Bounding Exploiting Properties of Infinite Dimensional Linear Equations (slides).
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-16:00 | Session "Mobility and Mobile Networks"
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| Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti, and Andrea Passarella. Modelling Social-aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks. |
| Vicente Casares-Giner. On Lookahead Strategy for Movement-based Location Update. A General Formulation (slides). |
| Fabio Ricciato, Angelo Coluccia, and Peter Romirer-Maierhofer. Bayesian Estimation of Network-wide Mean Failure Probability in 3G Cellular Networks (slides). |
| Markus Fiedler, Patrik Arlos, Timothy Gonsalves, Anuraag Bhardwaj, and Hans Nottehed. Time is Perception is Money - Web Response Times in Mobile Networks With Application to Quality of Experience. |
| 17:00- | Celebration: Honoring Prof. Günter Haring |
Sat, October 16, 2010
| 08:30-10:30 | Session "Load Balancing, Analysis, and Management" (Michal Pioro)
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| Martin Reiser. Mean Value Analysis, a personal account. |
| Guanlin Lin, John C.S. Lui, and Yang Wang. A Matrix-Analytic Solution for Randomized Load Balancing Models with PH Service Times. |
| Gabriele Kotsis and Martin Pinzger. AWPS - an Architecture for Pro-active Web Performance Management (slides). |
| Maria Carla Calzarossa and Luisa Massari. Analysis of Web Logs: Challenges and Findings (slides). |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session "Communication and Computer Networks" (Gabriele Kotsis)
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| Kurt Tutschku and Albert Rafetseder. Performance Requirements for Future Virtualized and Federated Networks. |
| Walid Ben-Ameur, Pablo Pavon-Marino, and Michal Pioro. On Traffic Domination in Communication Networks (slides). |
| Ashish Gupta, Harmeet Singh, Michel Marot, and Monique Becker. Improving Clustering Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks by using a Thinning Process (slides). |
| 12:30-12:45 | Workshop Closing |
