Prevalent black-box based approaches to characterize the behavior of monolithic software systems are highly irrelevant to model the modern heterogeneous applications. This tutorial presents techniques to evaluate the performance and reliability of heterogeneous software systems based on their architecture.
Tutorial Outline
The focus of the tutorial is along three dimensions:
Background: The background is elementary probability and statistics.
Presenters: Swapna Ghokale, Telcordia Technologies and Kishor Trivedi, Duke University
Swapna S. Gokhale received B.E.(Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India in June 1994, and MS and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in September 1996 and September 1998 respectively. Currently, she is a Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies in Morristown, NJ.
Kishor S. Trivedi received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds the Hudson Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science at Duke. He is the Duke-Site Director of an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center between NC State University and Duke University for carrying out applied research in computing and communications. He is a co-designer of HARP, SAVE, SHARPE, SPNP, and SREPT modeling packages. He is the author of a well-known text entitled, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Science Applications, published by Prentice-Hall. He has recently published two books entitled, Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and Queueing Networks and Markov Chains, John Wiley. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a Gloden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society.