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QEST 2008: The Programme


Sunday, September 14, 2008

 

09:00-17:30

Tutorials

18:00-19:30

Welcome reception

 

Monday, September 15, 2008

 

08:00-08:30

Registration

08:30-09:00

Opening

09:00-10:00

Keynote: Michael Littman, from Rutgers, USA

Autonomous Model Learning for Reinforcement Learning


10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:30

Session 1: Networking

  • "A Control-theoretic Modeling Approach for Service Differentiation in Multi-hop Ad-Hoc Networks"
    Yimeng Yang, Boudewijn R. Haverkort and Geert J. Heijenk
  • "On the Data Delivery Delay taken by Random Walks in Wireless Sensor Networks"
    Issam Mabrouki, Gwillerm Froc and Xavier Lagrange
  • "Analysis of an M/G/1 queue with repeated inhomogeneous vacations with application to IEEE 802.16e power saving mechanism"
    Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman and Amar P. Azad

Tool Presentations (at 12:00)

  • "CaVi – Simulation and Model Checking for Wireless Sensor Networks"
    Athanassis Boulis, Ansgar Fehnker, Matthias Fruth and Annabelle McIver
  • "Performance Model Generation for MPSoC Design-Space Exploration"
    B.D. Theelen
  • "Möbius Trace Analysis with Traviando"
    Ruth Lamprecht and Peter Kemper

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Session 2: Quantitative Verification

  • "Reduction Techniques for Model Checking Markov Decision Processes"
    Frank Ciesinski, Christel Baier, Marcus Grober and Joachim Klein
  • "Quantitative Model-Checking of One-Clock Timed Automata under Probabilistic Semantics"
    Nathalie Bertrand, Patricia Bouyer, Thomas Brihaye and Nicolas Markey
  • "Symbolic Partition Refinement with Dynamic Balancing of Time and Space"
    Ralf Wimmer, Salem Derisavi and Holger Hermanns

Tool Presentations (at 15:30)

  • "Cell assisted APMC"
    Alexandre Borghi, Thomas Herault, Richard Lassaigne and Sylvain Peyronnet
  • "ProbDiVinE-MC: Multi-Core LTL Model Checker for Probabilistic Systems"
    Jiri Barnat, Lubos Brim, Ivana Cerna, Milan Ceska and Jana Tumova
  • "Prism2Promela"
    Christopher Power and Alice Miller

16:00-16:30

Break

16:30-18:30

Session 3: Tools

  • "KPC-Toolbox: Simple Yet Effective Trace Fitting Using Markovian Arrival Processes"
    Giuliano Casale, Eddy Z. Zhang and Evgenia Smirni
  • "VATS: Virtualized-aware Automated Test Service"
    Sebastian Gaisbauer, Johannes Kirschnick, Nigel Edwards and Jerry Rolia
  • "Symbolic Magnifying Lens Abstraction in Markov Decision Processes"
    Pritam Roy, David Parker, Gethin Norman and Luca de Alfaro

Tool Presentations (at 18:00)

  • "Recent extensions to the stochasic process algebra tool CASPA"
    Martin Riedl, Johann Schuster and Markus Siegle
  • "A tool supporting evaluation of non-Markovian Fault Trees"
    G.Bucci, L.Carnevali and E.Vicario
  • "The performability tool P’ility"
    Lucia Cloth and Boudewijn R. Haverkort

18:30-20:30

"Cheese and wine" extra session

 

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

 

08:00-08:30

Registration

08:30-09:30

Keynote: Albert Benveniste, from INRIA, France

Composing Web Services in an open world: QoS issues


09:30-10:30

Session 4: Performance Analysis I

  • "A Joint Moments Based Analysis of Networks of MAP/MAP/1 Queues"
    Andras Horvath, Gabor Horvath and Miklos Telek
  • "Product Form Approximations for Communicating Markov Processes"
    Peter Buchholz

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Session 5: Performance Analysis II

  • "Discrete Time Markov chains competing over resources: product form steady-state distribution"
    Jean-Michel Fourneau
  • "Memory Efficient Calculation of Path Probabilities in Large Structured Markov Chains"
    Paolo Ballarini and Andras Horvath

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Session 6: Counter-examples

  • "Hintikka Games for PCTL on Labeled Markov Chains"
    Harald Fecher, Michael Huth, Nir Piterman and Daniel Wagner
  • "Regular Expressions for PCTL Counter-examples"
    Berteun Damman, Tingting Han and Joost-Pieter Katoen
  • "Debugging of Dependability Models Using Interactive Visualization of Counter-examples"
    Husain Aljazzar and Stefan Leue

15:15

Departure to St Michel

19:30

Banquet

 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

 

09:00-10:00

Keynote: Peter Glynn, from Stanford, USA

Linear Programming, Lyapunov Functions, and Performance Analysis


10:00-11:30

Break

10:30-12:30

Session 7: High-level Models

  • "Automatic Translation of UML Sequence Diagrams into PEPA Models"
    Mirco Tribastone and Stephen Gilmore
  • "Analysis of large scale interacting systems by mean field method"
    Andrea Bobbio, Marco Gribaudo and Miklos Telek
  • "Polynomial Throughput Bounds for Equal Conflict Petri Nets with Multi-Guarded Transitions"
    Jorge Julvez

Tool Presentations (at 12:00)

  • "New solvers for asymmetric systems in GreatSPN"
    S. Baarir, M. Beccuti and G. Franceschinis
  • "A Parallel and Distributed Analysis Pipeline for Performance Tree Evaluation"
    Darren K. Brien, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J. Knottenbelt, Harini Kulatunga and Tamas Suto
  • "An Experimental Framework for PIPE2"
    Marc Melia, Catalina M. Llado, Ramon Puigjaner and Connie U. Smith

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Session 8: Probabilistic and Timed Systems

  • "Quasi-Birth-Death Processes, Tree-Like QBDs, Probabilistic 1-Counter Automata, and Pushdown Systems"
    Kousha Etessami, Dominik Wo jtczak and Mihalis Yannakakis
  • "Computing Expected Absorption Times for Parametric Determinate Probabilistic Timed Automata"
    N. Chamseddine, M. Duflot, L. Fribourg, C. Picaronny and J. Sproston
  • "Approximate analysis of probabilistic processes: logic, simulation and games"
    Josee Desharnais, Francois Laviolette and Mathieu Tracol
  • "Conflict-Tolerant Real-Time Features"
    Deepak D'Souza, Madhu Gopinathan, S. Ramesh and Prahladavaradan Sampath

16:00-16:30

Break

16:30-18:00

Session 9: Applications

  • "Cross-Profiling for Embedded Java Processors"
    Walter Binder, Martin Schoeberl, Philippe Moret and Alex Villazon
  • "Characterization of the E-commerce Storage Subsystem Workload"
    Xi Zhang, Alma Riska and Erik Riedel
  • "Modeling Peer-to-Peer Botnets"
    Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek and William H. Sanders

18:00-18:30

Closing of QEST'08