Quantitative Evaluation of Systems

11th International Conference, QEST 2014, Florence, Italy, September 8-10, 2014, Proceedings
Herausgegeben:Norman, Gethin; Sanders, William

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Produktbeschreibung

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, QEST 2014, held in Florence, Italy, in September 2014. The 24 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Kronecker and product form methods; hybrid systems; mean field/population analysis; models and tools; simulation; queueing, debugging and tools; process algebra and equivalences; automata and Markov process theory; applications, theory and tools; and probabilistic model checking.

Produktdetails

• Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues 8657
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86379510, 978-3-319-10695-3
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9783319106953
• ISBN-10: 3319106953
• Artikelnr.: 41203632

Autorenporträt

Dr. William B. Sanders, a professor of multimedia web design and development, has published more than 40 books on a range of Internet programming and web development topics, including PHP, Flash Media Server, and ActionScript.

Inhaltsangabe

Keynote Presentations.- Quantitative Evaluation of Service Dependability in Shared Execution Environments.- Multi-agent Networked Systems with Adversarial Elements.- Kronecker and Product Form Methods.- A Structured Solution Approach for Markov Regenerative Processes.- Low-Rank Tensor Methods for Communicating Markov Processes.- Hybrid Systems.- A Statistical Approach for Computing Reachability of Non-linear and Stochastic Dynamical Systems.- Formal Synthesis and Validation of Inhomogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads.- Finite Abstractions of Stochastic Max-Plus-Linear Systems.- Mean Field/Population Analysis.- Mean Field for Performance Models with Generally-Distributed Timed Transitions.- Mean-Field Approximation and Quasi-Equilibrium Reduction of Markov Population Models.- On Performance of Gossip Communication in a Crowd-Sensing Scenario.- Models and Tools.- Probabilistic Model Checking of DTMC Models of User Activity Patterns.- Performance Comparison of IEEE 802.11 DCF and EDCA for Beaconing in Vehicular Networks.- A New Great SPN GUI for GSPN Editing and CSLTA Model Checking.- The Octave Queueing.- Package.- Simulation.- A Perfect Sampling Algorithm of Random Walks with Forbidden Arcs.- Modelling Replication in No SQL Datastores.- Queueing, Debugging and Tools.- On Queues with General Service Demands and Constant Service Capacity.- Simulation Debugging and Visualization in the Mobius Modeling Framework.- Scalar: A Distributed Scalability Analysis Framework.- Non-intrusive Scalable Memory Access Tracer.- Process Algebra and Equivalences.- Probabilistic Programming Process Algebra.- PALOMA: A Process Algebra for Located Markovian Agents.- On the Discriminating Power of Testing Equivalences for Reactive Probabilistic Systems: Results and Open Problems.- Automata and Markov Process Theory.- Continuity Properties of Distances for Markov Processes.- Deciding the Value 1 Problem for Reachability in 1-Clock Decision Stochastic Timed Automata.- Decidable Problems for Unary PFAs.- Applications, Theory and Tools.- A Scalable Approach to the Assessment of Storm Impact in Distributed Automation Power Grids.- Compositionality Results for Quantitative Information Flow.- CyberSAGE: A Tool for Automatic Security Assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems.- Probabilistic Model Checking.- Symbolic Approximation of the Bounded Reachability Probability in Large Markov Chains.- Accelerating Parametric Probabilistic Verification.