PMCCS-8: The Eighth International Workshop on Performability Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems
September 20-21, 2007 - Edinburgh, Scotland
General
PMCCS-8 was hosted in Edinburgh in
Abden House.
It followed immediately after the 4th International
Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems
(QEST) 2007 (www.qest.org), which was also
held in Edinburgh.
Scope
The workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers in the area of integrated performance and dependability modeling and evaluation, with emphasis on bridging theory and practice. Theoretical contributions as well as application-oriented work are welcome. Case studies and industrial applications of performability modeling and evaluation are solicited in the field of (embedded) computer and communication systems as well as in related fields, such as flexible manufacturing systems, product-in-process software development, medical systems, transportation systems, and complex infrastructures.
This year, in addition to regular sessions, PMCCS organizes a special session on self-adaptive and -configurating systems (naturally, submissions are not limited to this topic).
According to the traditions of the PMCCS series, the workshop will be characterized by open and intense discussions on various topics in performability modeling and analysis, based on recent work of the participants. Authors retain copyright of their work.
Workshop Programme
- Performability Modeling: Back to the Future?
J.F. Meyer
- A Centralized Feedback Control Model for Resource Management
in Wireless Networks
Y. Yang, B.R. Haverkort, G.J. Heijenk
- On Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Consolidated Servers in Virtualized Data Centers
E. Kalyvianaki, T. Charalambous
- Mitigating Provider Uncertainty in Service Provision Contracts
C. Smith, A. van MoorselOn Clustering Simulation Traces
D.M. Gordon, P. Kemper
- Analysis of the Reliability/Availability of Distributed File Systems in Large-Scale Systems:
A Case Study using Simultaneous Simulation
S. Gaonkar, W.H. Sanders
- Best of Three Worlds: Towards Sounds Architectural Dependability Models
H. Boudali, B.R. Haverkort, M. Kuntz, M. Stoelinga
- GCSRL -- A Logic for Stochastic Reward Models with Timed and Untimed Behaviour
M. Kuntz, B.R. Haverkort
- Recurrence-Relation-Based Reward Model for Performability Evaluation of Embedded Systems
A.T. Tai, K.S. Tso, W.H. Sanders
- Performability Analysis of a Sensor Network by Interacting Markovian Agents
M. Gribaudo, A. Bobbio
- An Off-Line Approach for Generating On-Line Adaptation Policies
M. Hiltunen. K. Joshi, G. Jung, C. Pu, R. Schlichting
- RAS-Models: A Building Block for Self-Healing Benchmarks
R. Griffith, R. Virmani, G. Kaiser
- On Adaptivity: Developing a Metric for an Elusive Concept
P. Reinecke, K. Wolter
- A simple model of a finite queue with a sleeping server
N. Thomas
- Coupling QoE with Dependability through Models with Failures
A.P. Couto da Silva, P. Rodriguez-Bocca, G. Rubino
- Reducing Acyclic Phase-Type Representations
R. Pulungan, H. Hermanns
Organizers
History
The PMCCS series
started in 1991 as a forum to gather researchers working in
the emerging area of performability of computer and communication systems.
The intent of the workshop was to favor an informal but deep exchange of new
and in-progress work on the combined modeling and analysis of performance and
dependability aspects of systems. Previous workshops in the series were held
in:
- PMCCS-1 - University of Twente, The Netherlands, 1991
- PMCCS-2 - Le Mont Saint Michel, France, 1993
- PMCCS-3 - Indian Lakes Resort, Bloomingdale, IL, USA, 1996
- PMCCS-4 - College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA, 1998
- PMCCS-5 - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2001
- PMCCS-6 - Allerton Park (University of Illinois), Monticello, IL, USA, 2003
- PMCCS-7 - Torino, Italy, September 23-24, 2005
Steering Committee
- Boudewijn R. Haverkort,
Chair, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Andrea Bobbio,
Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
- Gianfranco Ciardo,
University
of California at Riverside, USA
- Jean-Claude Laprie,
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
- Raymond Marie,
IRISA, Rennes, France
- John F. Meyer,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- William H. Sanders,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Edmundo A. de Souza e Silva, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Kishor S. Trivedi,
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA