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Monday, September 19, 2005
 
09:00-17:30 Tutorials
Evening Social programme
 
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
 
09:00-09:30 Opening
09:30-10:30 Session 1: Invited talk of Pierpaolo Degano
Quantitative descriptions of biological systems

10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Petri nets and process algebras
  • Introducing probability within state class analysis of dense-time-dependent systems.
    Giacomo Bucci, Riccardo Piovosi, Luigi Sassoli and Enrico Vicario
  • On the use of exact lumpability in partially symmetrical well-formed nets.
    Souheib Baarir, Claude Dutheillet, Serge Haddad, Jean-Michel Ilié
  • Fluid Flow Approximation of PEPA models.
    Jane Hillston
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Session 3: Bisimulation and approximations
  • Comparative analysis of bisimulation relations on alternating and non-alternating probabilistic models.
    Roberto Segala and Andrea Turrini
  • An approximation algorithm for labelled Markov processes: towards realistic approximation.
    Alexandre Bouchard, Norm Ferns, Prakash Panangaden and Doina Precup
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-17:30 Session 4: Tool presentations.
 
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
 
09:00-10:00 Session 5: Invited talk of Leana Golubchik
Picture-perfect Streaming Over the Internet: Is There Hope?

10:00-10:30 Session 6: Workload characterization/measurements
  • The use of optimal tracking filters to track parameters of performance models.
    Murray Woodside, Tao Zheng and Marin Litoiu
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 7: Performability
  • Evaluating the dependability of a LEO satellite network for scientific applications.
    Eleftheria Athanasopoulou, Purvesh Thakker and William H. Sanders
  • On the performance of D-redundant disk systems.
    Eitan Bachmat
  • Multisolution of complex performability models in the OsMoSys/DrawNET framework.
    Francesco Moscato, Marco Gribaudo, Nicola Mazzocca and Valeria Vittorini
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 8: Markovian models
  • Steady state solution for models with geometric and finite support activity duration.
    András Horváth
  • A MAP fitting approach with independent approximation of the inter-arrival time distribution and the lag correlation.
    Peter Buchholz, Gábor Horváth and Miklós Telek
  • Approximate analysis of stochastic models by self-correcting aggregation.
    Peter Bazan and Reinhard German
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Session 9: Model checking
  • Model checking for survivability!
    Lucia Cloth and Boudewijn Haverkort
  • Checking LTL properties of recursive Markov chains.
    Mihalis Yannakakis and Kousha Etessami
16:30 on Social programme
 
Thursday, September 22, 2005
 
09:00-10:00 Session 10: invited talk of Thomas Sterling
Challenges to evaluating Petaflops systems

10:00-10:30 Session 11: Architecture measurements/modeling I
  • X-Ray: automatic measurement of hardware parameters.
    Kamen Yotov, Keshav Pingali and Paul Stodghill
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 12: Architecture measurements/modeling II
  • Workload propagation -- overload in bursty servers.
    Qi Zhang, Alma Riska and Erik Riedel
  • Performance modeling and architecture exploration of network processors.
    Govind Shenoy and Govindarajan Ramaswamy
  • Integrating multiple forms of multithreaded execution on SMT processors: a quantitative study with scientific workloads.
    Matthew Curtis-Maury, Tanping Wang, Christos Antonopoulos and Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 13: Markov chains/importance sampling
  • QBDs with marked time epochs: a framework for transient performance measures.
    Benny Van Houdt and Chris Blondia
  • Importance sampling simulation of population overflow in two-node tandem networks.
    Victor Nicola and Tatiana Zaburnenko
  • On optimal importance sampling for discrete-time Markov chains.
    Werner Sandmann
15:00-15:30 Closing session
 
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