Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. Milestones and Future Challenges

Disappointments and Delights, Fears and Hopes Induced by a Few Decades in Performance Evaluation.-

Model Interoperability for Performance Engineering: Survey of Milestones and Evolution.- Tools for Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems: Historical Evolution and Perspectives.- Energy: A New Criteria for Performances in Large Scale Distributed Systems.- From the Origins of Performance Evaluation to New Green ICT Performance Engineering.- Predicting Disk Scheduling Performance with Virtual Machines.- Modeling Wireless Sensor Networks Using Finite-Source Retrial Queues with Unreliable Orbit.- Markov Chains and Spectral Clustering.- On the Analysis of Queues with Heavy Tails: A Non-extensive Maximum Entropy Formalism and a Generalisation of the Zipf-Mandelbrot Distribution.- Performance Evaluation with Hidden Markov Models.- Network Protocol Performance Bounding Exploiting Properties of Infinite Dimensional Linear Equations.- Modelling Social-Aware Forwarding in Opportunistic Networks.- On Lookahead Strategy for Movement-Based Location Update: A GeneralFormulation.- Bayesian Estimation of Network-Wide Mean Failure Probability in 3G Cellular Networks.- Time Is Perception Is Money - Web Response Times in Mobile Networks with Application to Quality of Experience.- On Traffic Domination in Communication Networks.- Improving Clustering Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Thinning Process.- AWPS - An Architecture for Pro-active Web Performanc Management.- Analysis of Web Logs: Challenges and Findings.- A Matrix-Analytic Solution for Randomized Load Balancing Models with PH Service Times.