PERFORMANCE EVALUATION - updated on 11 August 2004

References

  1. Quantitative System Performance, E.D. Lazowska et al., Prentice-Hall, 1984 (out of print but available online).

  2. Queuing Analysis, W. Stallings, 2000.

  3. The Operational Analysis of Queueing Network Models, P.J. Denning and J.P. Buzen, Computing Surveys, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 225-261, Sep 1978.

  4. Basic Elements of Queuing Theory - Application to the Modelling of Computer Systems, P. Nain, 1998.

  5. Performance Evaluation: Techniques, Tools and Benchmarks, L.K. John, The Computer Engineering Handbook, CRC Press 2000.

  6. Workload Characterisation: Motivation, Goals and Methodology, L.K. John, et. al., Workload Characterization Methodology & Case Studies, pp. 3-12, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999.

Professional Organisations

ACM SIGMETRICS (Special Interest Group on Performance Measurement and Evaluation) ACM SIGSIM (ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation)

CMG (Computer Measurement Group)

IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Institute for Capacity Management (ICCM) IEEE Computer Society: Technical Committee on Simulation

Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)

The Society for Computer Simulation

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) The Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)

Journals