Presentations are 20 minutes long. If you are presenting please read the notes for presenters.
Wednesday 2nd July
18:00–…
Informal Drinks Reception in the Holland Club
Thursday 3rd July
10:00–10:55
Registration and Coffee
10:55–11:00
Welcome
11:00–12:00
Keynote 1: Capacity Management Views. Adam Grummitt
12:00–12:20
Performance Prediction and Procurement in Practice: Assessing the Suitability of Commodity Cluster Components for Wavefront Codes. Simon Hammond, Gihan Mudalige, Jonathan Smith and Stephen Jarvis
12:20–12:40
Restart in Competitive Environments. Katinka Wolter and Philipp Reinecke
12:40–13:00
A PEPA Model of a Threshold Policy Sleeping Server. Nigel Thomas
13:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:00
Keynote 2: Large-Scale Parallel Computing on Grids. Henri Bal
15:00–15:20
Coffee
15:20–15:40
A Middleware for Activating the Global Open Grid. Jeremy Cohen, John Darlington and Colin Richardson
15:40–16:00
The Performance of Locality-Aware Topologies for Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming. Richard Clegg, David Griffin, Raul Landa, Eleni Mykoniati and Miguel Rio
16:00–16:20
Terminating Passage-Time Calculations on Uniformised Markov Chains. Allan Clark and Stephen Gilmore
16:20–16:40
Which Battery Model to Use? Marijn R. Jongerden and Boudewijn R. Haverkort
16:40–17:00
Analytical TCP Throughput Model for HSDPA. Levente Bodrog, Gabor Havath and Csaba Vulkan
Hypercube Communication Structures Analysis Via Parameteric Petri Nets. Dmitry Zaitsev and Tatyana Shmeleva
09:20–09:40
From Architectural Design to SWN Models for Compositional Performance Analysis of Component Based Systems: Application to CCM Based Systems. Nabila Salmi, Patrice Moreaux and Malika Ioualalen
09:40–10:00
Mapping WSLA on Reward Constructs in Moebius. Rouaa Yassin Kassab and Aad van Moorsel
10:00–10:20
Using Representative Intervals for Trace-Based Performance Analysis of Mobile Phones. Lukas Pustina, Simon Schwarzer and Peter Martini
10:20–10:40
Coffee
10:40–11:00
Fluid Flow Analysis of a Model of a Secure Key Distribution Centre. Nigel Thomas and Yishi Zhao
11:00–11:20
Queuing Networks for the Performance Evaluation of Database Designs. Rasha Osman, Irfan Awan and Michael Woodward
11:20–11:40
Construction of Novel Continuous Time Markovian Queues for Exact Solution. David Thornley
11:40–12:00
A System for Dynamic Server Allocation in Application Server Clusters. Adam Chester, James Xue, Ligang He and Stephen Jarvis
12:00–12:20
The Role of Client Behaviour in the Performance Analysis of eCommerce Systems. Robert Holton, Irfan Awan and Muhammad Younas
Fine Grain Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Low Power Portable Devices with Dynamic Power Management. Yuan Chen, Fei Xia, Delong Shang and Alex Yakovlev
13:20–13:40
A New Distributed Duty-cycle Management Technique for Dependable Wireless Sensor Networks. Jin Wu and Zhili Sun
13:40–14:00
Validation of Large Zoned RAID Systems. Abigail Lebrecht, Nicholas Dingle and William Knottenbelt
14:00–14:20
Response Time Distributions via Reversed Processes. Peter Harrison and Maria Vigliotti
14:20–14:40
Coffee
14:40–15:00
Multipath Distance Vector Zone Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks MDVZRPA. Idris Ibrahim, Ali Etorban and Peter King
15:00–15:20
A Guided Subsystem Performance Assessment Architecture for Grid Service. Jin Wu, Yichao Yang, Yanbo Zhou, Linghang Fan and Zhili Sun
15:20–15:40
RAD Analysis of Adjusted Counter Based Broadcast in MANETs. Sarah al-Humoud, Lewis Mackenzie, Mohamed Ould-Khaoua and Jamaldeen Abdulai
15:40–16:00
Simulation of a Tandem Router System for Mobile Network Traffic with Different Source Traffic Distributions. Aisha Khan
16:00–16:20
Coffee
16:20–16:40
On the Componentization of Queue Solution Methods. David Thornley
16:40–17:00
Parallelization of a Simulation of a Peer-to-Peer Market for Grid Computing. Fernando Martinez Ortuno
17:00–17:20
State-Space Size Estimation By Least-Squares Fitting. Nicholas Dingle and William Knottenbelt
17:20–17:40
Rare Event Simulation of Stochastic Activity Networks Using Partition of the Region Technique. Mohammed Abdollahi Azgomi and Amir Jalaly Bidgoly - not presented
