InhaltsangabeParallel simulation.- Properties and analysis of queueing network models with finite capacities.- Performance analysis and optimization with the power-series algorithm.- Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs): Protocols, modeling and performance evaluation.- Multiprocessor and distributed system design: The integration of functional specification and performance analysis using Stochastic Process Algebras.- Response time distributions in queueing network models.- Fast simulation of rare events in queueing and reliability models.- An introduction to modeling dynamic behavior with time series analysis.- Issues in trace-driven simulation.- Maximum entropy analysis of queueing network models.- Performance modeling using DSPNexpress.- Relaxation for massively parallel discrete event simulation.- The BMAP/G/1 queue: A tutorial.- An overview of TES processes and modeling methodology.- Performance engineering of client-server systems.- Queueing networks with finite capacities.- Real time systems: A tutorial.- Performance instrumentation techniques for parallel systems.- A survey of bottleneck analysis in closed networks of queues.- Software performance engineering.- Performance measurement using system monitors.- Providing quality of service in packet switched networks.- Dependability and performability analysis.- Architectures and algorithms for digital multimedia on-demand servers.- Analysis and control of polling systems.- Modeling and analysis of transaction processing systems.