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Quantitative Evaluation of Systems

11th International Conference, QEST 2014, Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2014, Proceedings

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  1. Gethin Norman

    1. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

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  2. William Sanders

    1. University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8657)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): QEST: International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems

Conference proceedings info: QEST 2014.

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. Kronecker and Product Form Methods

    1. A Structured Solution Approach for Markov Regenerative Processes

      • Elvio Gilberto Amparore, Peter Buchholz, Susanna Donatelli
      Pages 9-24

    2. Low-Rank Tensor Methods for Communicating Markov Processes

      • Daniel Kressner, Francisco Macedo
      Pages 25-40

  4. Hybrid Systems

    2. Formal Synthesis and Validation of Inhomogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads

      • Sadegh Esmaeil Zadeh Soudjani, Sebastian Gerwinn, Christian Ellen, Martin Fränzle, Alessandro Abate
      Pages 57-73

    3. Finite Abstractions of Stochastic Max-Plus-Linear Systems

      • Dieky Adzkiya, Sadegh Esmaeil Zadeh Soudjani, Alessandro Abate
      Pages 74-89

  5. Mean Field/Population Analysis

    1. Mean Field for Performance Models with Generally-Distributed Timed Transitions

      • Richard A. Hayden, Illés Horváth, Miklós Telek
      Pages 90-105

    3. On Performance of Gossip Communication in a Crowd-Sensing Scenario

      • Marcel C. Guenther, Jeremy T. Bradley
      Pages 122-137

  6. Models and Tools

    1. Probabilistic Model Checking of DTMC Models of User Activity Patterns

      • Oana Andrei, Muffy Calder, Matthew Higgs, Mark Girolami
      Pages 138-153

    2. Performance Comparison of IEEE 802.11 DCF and EDCA for Beaconing in Vehicular Networks

      • Geert Heijenk, Martijn van Eenennaam, Anne Remke
      Pages 154-169

    3. A New GreatSPN GUI for GSPN Editing and CSLTA Model Checking

      • Elvio Gilberto Amparore
      Pages 170-173

    4. The Octave Queueing Package

      • Moreno Marzolla
      Pages 174-177

  7. Simulation

    1. A Perfect Sampling Algorithm of Random Walks with Forbidden Arcs

      • Stéphane Durand, Bruno Gaujal, Florence Perronnin, Jean-Marc Vincent
      Pages 178-193

    2. Modelling Replication in NoSQL Datastores

      • Rasha Osman, Pietro Piazzolla
      Pages 194-209

  8. Queueing, Debugging and Tools

    1. On Queues with General Service Demands and Constant Service Capacity

      • Herwig Bruneel, Wouter Rogiest, Joris Walraevens, Sabine Wittevrongel
      Pages 210-225

    3. Scalar: A Distributed Scalability Analysis Framework

      • Thomas Heyman, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen
      Pages 241-244
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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, QEST 2014, held in Florence, Italy, in September 2014. The 24 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Kronecker and product form methods; hybrid systems; mean field/population analysis; models and tools; simulation; queueing, debugging and tools; process algebra and equivalences; automata and Markov process theory; applications, theory and tools; and probabilistic model checking.
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Keywords

  • Markov processes
  • computer networks
  • formal languages and automata theory
  • formal methods
  • hardware validation
  • model checking
  • models of computation
  • performance evaluation
  • reliability
  • safety critical systems
  • simulation
  • stochastic model checking
  • theory of computation
  • theory of probability
  • timed and hybrid models
  • verification
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Gethin Norman

  • University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

    William Sanders

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