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Technical Program of IFIP WG7.3 Performance 2002 (IFIP WG7.3 International Symposium onComputer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation, Rome, Italy, September 23 - 27, 2002



=====================CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================



                            Call For Participation
                      IFIP WG7.3 International Symposium on
              Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation

                                 Rome, Italy
                           September 23 - 27, 2002


The IFIP WG7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance
Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation will be held in Rome, Italy on
September 23-27, 2002.  The tutorials will be held on Sept 23 and 24, 2002.


The advance program, hotel and conference registration forms,
tutorials, STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT can be found on the following web page:

           http://perf2002.uniroma2.it/

**********Student Travel Grant: ************
A number of student grants will be available. The grants will
cover the registration fees of the conference and of the tutorials.
Full time students can apply for a grant by sending an application,
in Postscript or PDF format, to grants@perf2002.uniroma2.it
no later than July 15, 2002.
Applications, not exceeding 3 pages, should include a
cv and a brief description of the research interests of the applicants.



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Deadline for early conference registration:  on or before July 25, 2002

Hotel reservation: on or before July 30, 2002.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SEPTEMBER IS A VERY VERY HIGH SEASON AND IT MIGHT BE VERY DIFFICULT
TO FIND AN ACCOMMODATION AT THE LAST MINUTE!!!!!!!!!
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Papers for the Technical Program:


Output Models of MAP/PH/1(/K) Queues for an Efficient Network Decomposition
Armin Heindl, Miklos Telek


Second Order Stochastic Fluid Models with Fluid Dependent Flow Rates
Dongyan Chen, Yiguang Hong, Kishor S. Trivedi


Solving Dimensioning Tasks for Proportionally Fair Networks
Carrying Elastic Traffic
Pal Nilsson, Michal Pioro


Non-Cooperative Routing in Loss Networks
Eitan Altman, Rachid El Azouzi, Vyacheslav Abramov


Service Differentiation for Delay-Sensitive Applications: An 
Optimisation-Based Approach
Peter Key, Larent Massoulie, Jonathan K. Shapiro


Forwarders vs. Centralized Server: An Evaluation of Two Approaches for 
Locating Mobile Agents
Sara Alouf, Fabrice Huet, Philippe Nain


User-level performance of elastic traffic in integrated-services networks
S.C. Borst, R. Nunez-Queija, M.J.G. van Uitert


Analysis of Two Competing TCP/IP Connections
E. Altman, T. Jimenez, R. Nunez-Queija


Asymptotic Convergence of Scheduling Policies with respect to Slowdown
Mor Harchol-Balter, Karl Sigman, Adam Wierman


Insensitivity in processor-sharing networks
T. Bonald, A. Proutiere


Worst Case Burstiness Increase due to FIFO
Vicent Cholvi, Juan Echague, Jean-Yves Le Boudec


An Iterative Bounding Method for Stochastic Automata Networks
Peter Buchholz


A Closed Form Formula for Long-Lived TCP Connections Throughput
Augustin Chaintreau, Danny De Vleeschauwer


The Combined Gated-Exhaustive Vacation System in Discrete-time
Dieter Fiems, Stijn De Vuyst, Herwig Bruneel


A MAP-based Poisson cluster model for Web traffic
Guy Latouche, Marie-Ange Remiche


Open-loop Video Distribution with Support of VCR Functionality
Ernst W. Biersack, Alain Jean-Marie, Philippe Nain


A Case Study of Web Server Benchmarking Using Parallel WAN Emulation
R. Simmonds, C. Williamson, M. Arlitt, R. Bradford, B. Unger


Multi-path Continuous Media Streaming: What are the Benefits?
L. Golubchik, J.C.S. Lui, T.F. Tung, A.H.H. Chow, W.J. Lee, G. 
Franceschinis, C. Anglano


A mean-field model for multiple TCP connections through a buffer
Francois Baccelli, David McDonald, Julien Reynier


Continuous-time Hidden Markov Models for Network Performance Evaluation
Wei Wei, Bing Wang, Donald Towsley


Capturing the spatio-temporal behavior of real traffic data
Mengzhi Wang, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos


Direct Measurement Versus Indirect Inference for Determining Network 
Internal Delays
Kostas G. Anagnostakis, Michael B. Greenwald


A Comparative Performance Analysis of Reliable Group Rekey Transport 
Protocols for Secure Multicast
Sanjeev Setia, Sencun Zhu, Sushil Jajodia


Comparison of Inter-Area Rekeying Algorithms
Chun Zhang, Brian Decleene, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley


Shared Cache Architecture for Decision Support Systems
Michel Dubois, Jaeheon Jeong, Ashwini Nanda


Response Times in a Two-Node Queueing Network with Feedback
R.D. van der Mei, B.M.M. Gijsen, N. in `t Veld, J.L. van den Berg


G-Networks with Resets
Erol Gelenbe, Jean-Michel Fourneau


Asymptotic shape of the Erlang capacity region of a multi-service shared 
resource
John A. Morrison, Debasis Mitra


Calculating Mean Throughputs in a multi-service system supporting 
Elastic and Rate Adaptive Traffic
Sandor Racz, Balazs Peter Gero, Gabor Fodor


Delimiting the Range of Effectiveness of Scalable On-Demand Streaming
Haonan Tan, Derek Eager, Mary Vernon



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Tutorials :
please refer to http://perf2002.uniroma2.it/tutorials_program.html


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General Chair:    Salvatore Tucci, University of Roma "Tor Vergata" 
(tucci@torvergata.it)

Pogram Chairs:
        Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna (donat@cs.unibo.it)
        Mark Squillante, IBM Research Lab (mss@watson.ibm.com)
        Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts (towsley@cs.umass.edu)

Tutorial Chair: Maria Carla Calzarossa, University of Pavia 
(mcc@alice.unipv.it)

Corporate sponsors:
        *  Wind                               *  Microsoft Italia
        *  IBM Italia                         *  Banca di Roma
        *  Nova Systems Roma                  *  Promozione Castelli 
Romani
        *  Bnl Multiservizi
        *  Universit degli Studi di Roma ''Tor Vergata''
        *  Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica ed il Calcolo 	
	Automatico


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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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