Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions [electronic resource] / edited by Günter Haring, Christoph Lindemann, Martin Reiser.

Position Paper -- Performance Evaluation in Industry: A Personal Perspective -- Topical Area Papers -- Mainframe Systems -- Performance Analysis of Storage Systems -- Ad Hoc, Wireless, Mobile Networks: The Role of Performance Modeling and Evaluation -- Trace-Driven Memory Simulation: A Survey -- Performance Issues in Parallel Processing Systems -- Measurement-Based Analysis of Networked System Availability -- Performance of Client/Server Systems -- Performance Characteristics of the World Wide Web -- Parallel Job Scheduling: A Performance Perspective -- Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks with Complex Constraints -- Software Performance Evaluation by Models -- Performance Analysis of Database Systems -- Performance Analysis of Concurrency Control Methods -- Numerical Analysis Methods -- Product Form Queueing Networks -- Stochastic Modeling Formalisms for Dependability, Performance and Performability -- Analysis and Application of Polling Models -- Discrete-Event Simulation in Performance Evaluation -- Workload Characterization Issues and Methodologies -- Personal Accounts of Key Contributors -- From the Central Server Model to BEST/1© -- Mean Value Analysis: A Personal Account -- The Early Days of GSPNs -- The Discovery of Self-Similar Traffic.