Stochastic performance models provide a powerful way of capturing and analysing the behaviour of complex concurrent systems. Traditionally, performance measures for these models ar...
The automatic allocation of enterprise workload to resources can be enhanced by being able to make `whatif' response time predictions, whilst different allocations are being c...
David A. Bacigalupo, Jano van Hemert, Asif Usmani,...
—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...
We propose new techniques to simplify the computation of the cycle times and the absorption times for a large class of PEPA models. These techniques allow us to simplify the model ...
Operator-based programming languages provide an effective development model for large scale stream processing applications. A stream processing application consists of many runtim...
Xiaolan J. Zhang, Sujay Parekh, Bugra Gedik, Henri...