Performability Modelling: Techniques and Tools

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Boudewijn R. Haverkort (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Raymond Marie (IRISA, Rennes, France)

Performability Modelling

Techniques and Tools

Boudewijn R. Haverkort (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Raymond Marie (IRISA, Rennes, France), Gerardo Rubino (IRISA, Rennes, France) , Kishor S. Trivedi (Duke University)

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English

John Wiley & Sons Inc
18 April 2001

3D graphics & modelling; Maintenance & repairs; Computer networking & communications; Computer science

Performability modelling and evaluation brings together two disciplines that have long been treated separately in different communities: computer and communication system performance evaluation and system reliability and availability evaluation.
* Provides a single-source reference covering of all aspects of performability evaluation.
* Introduces a new approach to assessing the performance and dependability of systems thus revealing system characteristics that cannot be uncovered separately by performance or reliability evaluation.
* Explains how systems can operate partially in the presence of failures by discussing:

-Capacity of failure prone clusters of transaction processing systems.

-Network throughput when network nodes and links fail.

-Task completion times on degradable multiprocessor systems.

-A variety of modelling and evaluation techniques.
* Features software tool descriptions to support performability evaluations as well as an extensive bibliography.

Computer scientists and engineers will find this excellent overview compulsive reading as will postgraduates and researchers in computer science and related fields.

By: K. Trivedi (Duke University Durham North Carolina USA)
Edited by: Boudewijn R. Haverkort (RWTH Aachen Germany), Raymond Marie (IRISA, Rennes, France), Gerardo Rubino (IRISA, Rennes, France), Kishor S. Trivedi (Duke University)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 251mm, Width: 175mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 765g
ISBN: 9780471491958
ISBN 10: 0471491950
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 18 April 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contributing Authors. Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Queues with Breakdowns. The Uniformization Method in Performability Analysis. Closed-Form Solutions for Performability. Markov-Reward Models and Hyperbolic Systems. Monotonicity and Error Bound Results. The Task Completion Time in Degradable Systems. Rare Event Simulation. Specification and Construction of Performability Models. A Survey of Performability Modelling Tools. Bibliography. Concise Glossary. Index.

Boudewijn R. Haverkort is the editor of Performability Modelling : Techniques and Tools, published by Wiley. Raymond Marie is the editor of Performability Modelling : Techniques and Tools, published by Wiley.

Reviews for Performability Modelling: Techniques and Tools

.,. examines various computer techniques for analyzing computing performance in the presence of failures. (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2001)