This volume contains the complete set of tutorial papers presented at the 16th IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modelling, Measurement and Evaluation, and a number of tutorial papers presented at the 1993 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Special Interest Group METRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. The principal goal of the volume is to present an overview of recent results in the field of modeling and performance evaluation of computer and communication systems. The wide diversity of applications and methodologies included in the tutorials attests to the breadth and richness of current research in the area of performance modeling. The tutorials may serve to introduce a reader to an unfamiliar research area, to unify material already known, or simply to illustrate the diversity of research in the field. The extensive bibliographies guide readers to additional sources for further reading.

Written with computer scientists and engineers in mind, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science.

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Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction bridges the gap from academic to professional analysis of computer performance.This book makes analytic, simulation and instrumentation based modeling and performance evaluation of computer systems components understandable to a wide audience of computer systems designers, developers, administrators, managers and users. The book assumes familiarity with computer systems architecture, computer systems software, computer networks and mathematics including calculus and linear algebra.·Fills the void between engineering practice and the academic domain's treatment of computer systems performance evaluation and assessment·Provides a single source where the professional or student can learn how to perform computer systems engineering tradeoff analysis·Allows managers to realize cost effective yet optimal computer systems tuned to a specific application

Based on the author's experience in industry, this book focuses on simple techniques for solving everyday problems in systems design and analysis. All techniques are covered in a non-mathematical way, so that no statistics expertise is necessary.

These proceedings consist of papers presented at the International Workshop organized by the Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre, Ispra Establishment, Department A, in Ispra (Varese) Italy, October 4-6, 1976. Topics addressed in this conference include probabilistic modeling of computer systems, analysis of schedules of computations and tasks, queueing networks, and simulation models. Applications include program behavior measurements and models, scheduling of multiprocessor systems, and reliable processing in the presence of system failures.