8:45 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 9:30 Opening
9:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk: An Information Theoretic Methodology for Complex QNMs
Prof. D. D. Kouvatsos, Performance Modelling and Engineering Research Group, University of Bradford
Coffee Break
Session 1(Chair: M. Ould-Khaoua)
11:00 - 11:30 Moment Bounds for Acyclic Discrete and Continuous Phase-Type Distributions of Second Order
M. Telek (Technical University of Budapest) and A. Heindl (Technical University of Berlin)
11:30 - 12:00 Performance Modelling of a Wireless GSM/GPR Cell with Multiple Service Classes
D.D. Kouvatsos, I. Awan, and K. Al-Bagain (University of Bradford)
12:00 - 12:30 Distributed Solution of Large Markov Models Using Asynchronous Iterations and Graph Partitioning
N.J. Dingle and W.J. Knottenbelt (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)
Lunch Break
Session 2 (Chair: H. Sarbasi-Azad)
14:00 - 14:30
Unordered Partitioning for an Optimal Clustering
of Nodes in PNNI Routing Protocols
M.M.M. Al-fawaz and M.E. Woodward (University of Bradford)
14:30 - 15:00
Network Traffic Measurements in a Switched Ethernet
Environment
T. Field, U. Harder, and P.G. Harrison (Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine)
15:00 - 15:30
One-to-All Broadcasting Scheme for Weighted Hypercube
Interconnection Network
D.D. Kouvatsos, I.M. Mkwawa, and I. Awan (University of Bradford)
Coffee Break
Session 3 (Chair: L.M. Mackenzie)
16:00 - 16:30 Localised Workload Management Using Performance Prediction and QoS Contract
D.P. Spooner, J. Cao, J.D. Turner, H.N. Lim Choi Keung, S.A. Jarvis, and G.R. Nudd (University of Warwick)
16:30 - 17:00 Toward Performance Estimation of Data-Dependent Task Parallel Compositions
H. Gautama and A. J.C. van Gemund (Delft University of Technology)
17:00 - 17:30 Analytical Comparison of Disha v.s. Avoidance-Based Wormhole Routing Algorithms
A. Khonsari, A. F. Shahrabi, and M. Ould-Khaoua (University of Glasgow)
17:30 - 18:00
Capacity-Assignment
Optimisation for Wireless GSM Cells
D.D. Kouvatsos and S. Tantos (University of Bradford)
Workshop Dinner
Session 4 (Chair: K. Djemame)
9:00 - 9:30 Approximate Analysis of Arbitrary QNMs with HOL Priorities, CBS Buffer Management Scheme and RS-RD Blocking
I. Awan and D.D. Kouvatsos (University of Bradford)
9:30 - 10:00
Evolution of Traffic Patterns in a Multi-Hop
Network
G. Heide, C.J. Vowden, G. Willmott, and N. Davies (Degree2 Innovations,
Bristol, U.K.)
10:00 - 10:30
A TPC-W-based tool for Benchmarking E-commerce
Programming Technologies
Y. Abu-Shaaban and J. Hillston (University of Edinburgh)
Coffee Break
Session 5 (Chair: A. Khonsari)
11:00 - 11:30
Transient and Passage-Time Distributions in Semi-Markov
Processes
J. Bradley, W.J. Knottenbelt, P.G. Harrison (Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine)
and C.J. Vowden (Degree2 Innovations, Bristol, U.K.)
11:30 - 12:00
Performance Modelling with UML and Stochastic
Process Algebra
C. Cavenet, S. Gilmore, J. Hillston, and P. Stevens (University of Edinburgh)
12:00 – 12:30 Queues with Simultaneous Loss on Breakdowns
D. Thornley (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)
Lunch Break
Session 6 (Chair: G. Min)
13:30 - 14:00 Grid Information Services Using Software Agents
H.N. Lim Choi Keung, J. Cao, D.P. Spooner, S.A. Jarvis, and G.R. Nudd (University of Warwick)
14:00 - 14:30
ECATNets with Limited Capacity Places: A Distributed
Simulation Study
K. Djemame (University of Leeds)
14:30 - 15:00 On the Improvements of the MPEG-2 Encoding Algorithm by Timed-Arc Petri Nets
V. Valero, F.L. Pelayo, F. Cuarteo, and D. Cazorla (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Coffee Break
Session 7(Chair: A. F. Shahrabi)
15:30 - 16:00
An Approximate Solution of PEPA Models using
Component Substitution
N. Thomas (University of Durham), J. Bradley and D. Thornley (Imperial
College of Science, Technology and Medicine)
16:00 - 16:30
Performance Modelling in the Pub- Speculative
Computation and Dynamic Pricing
A. Argent-Katwala (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)