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Quantitative Evaluation of Systems

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

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  • © 2014

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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)

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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

    1. A Statistical Approach for Computing Reachability of Non-linear and Stochastic Dynamical Systems

      • Luca Bortolussi, Guido Sanguinetti
      Pages 41-56

    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

    2. Mean-Field Approximation and Quasi-Equilibrium Reduction of Markov Population Models

      • Luca Bortolussi, Rytis Paškauskas
      Pages 106-121

    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

    2. Simulation Debugging and Visualization in the Möbius Modeling Framework

      • Craig Buchanan, Ken Keefe
      Pages 226-240

    3. Scalar: A Distributed Scalability Analysis Framework

      • Thomas Heyman, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen
      Pages 241-244
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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.

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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