Selected Papers on Performance Evaluation

• Improving Approximations of Aggregated Queueing Network Subsystems, in ICOMPUTER PERFORMANCE, K.M. Chandy and M. Reiser, ed., North-Holland, New York, 1977, pp. 1-22 (with Sevcik, Levy, and Zahorjan).

• Transient Solution of the Virtual Waiting Time of a Single Server Queue and its Applications, Information Sciences, Vol. 21, No.3, July 1980, pp. 141-158 (with Agrawala).

• On the Optimality of Semidynamic Routing Schemes, Information Processing Letters, Vol. 13, No. 1, October 1981, pp. 20-22 (with Agrawala).

• Adaptive Routing Using a Virtual Waiting Time Technique, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-8, No. 1, January 1982, pp. 76-81 (with Agrawala and Ricart).

• An Approximate Analysis of M(t)/M/1 Queue'', Performance Evaluation, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1982, pp. 118-132 (with Upton).

• On an Exponential Server with General Cyclic Arrivals, Acta Informatica, Vol. 18, 1982, pp. 319-334 (with Agrawala).

• On Characterizing the Inter-Departure Process of a Server, Performance Evaluation, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1983, pp. 251-255 (with Agrawala).

• A Stochastic Optimization Algorithm Minimizing Expected Flow Times on Uniform Processors, IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. C-33, No. 4, April 1984, pp. 251-256 (with Agrawala, Coffman, Garey).

• On the Load Sharing Policies in Distributed Systems, Topics in Applied Statistics, T.D. Dwivedi and Y.P. Chaube (eds.), Concordia University Press, Montreal, 1984, pp. 737-748 (with Agrawala).

• STEP-1: A User Friendly Performance Analysis Tool, in Modeling Techniques and Tools for Performance Analysis, D. Potier (ed.) North-Holland, 1984, pp. 201-221 (with Agrawala, Abrams, Ramakrishnan, Singhal, and Son).

• Evaluation of the Hub Node in a Star Network: A case study, in Performance '84, E. Gelenbe (ed.), North Holland, 1984, pp. 177-198 (with Clausner).

• Approximate Solutions to Queueing Networks with State Dependent Parameters, Performance Evaluation, February 1985, pp. 45-55 (with Agre).

• Finite State Model and Compatibility Theory: New Analysis Tool for Permutation Networks, IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. C-35, Number 7, July 1986, pp. 591-601

• Optimal Allocation of file Servers in Local Network Environment, IEEE Transaction on S.E., Vol. SE-12, Number 8, August 1986, pp. 844-848 (with Woodside).

• On Detecting Parallelism in Software, The Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 6, Number 1 and 2, May 1986, pp. 133-136.

• Workload Representation and Its Impact on the Performance Prediction Using Queuing Network Models'', in Workload Characterization of Computer Systems and Computer Networks, Serazzi (ed.), North-Holland 1986, pp. 159-178 (with Dowdy).

• Time Dependent Analysis of Queueing Systems, INFOR Journal, Volume 24, No. 3, August 1986, pp. 199-220 (with Duda).

• Availability of Distributed Systems with Failures, Acta Informatica, Volume 23, 1986, pp. 643-655 (with Gelenbe and Finkel).