Performance Evaluation, Volume 18

Volume 18, Number 1, 1993

• Javier Campos, Manuel Silva: Embedded Product-Form Queueing Networks and the Improvement of Performance Bounds for Petri Net Systems. 3-19
• Susanna Donatelli: Superposed Stochastic Automata: A Class of Stochastic Petri Nets with Parallel Solution and Distributed State Space. 21-36
• Gianfranco Ciardo, Kishor S. Trivedi: A Decomposition Approach for Stochastic Reward Net Models. 37-59
• Boudewijn R. Haverkort: Approximate Performability and Dependability Analysis Using Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets. 61-78
• Christoph Lindemann: An Improved Numerical Algorithm for Calculating Steady-State Solutions of Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Net Models. 79-95
• Gianfranco Ciardo: PNPM'91-4th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models. 97-100

Volume 18, Number 2, 1993

• Onno J. Boxma, Hanoch Levy, Jan A. Weststrate: Efficient Visit Orders for Polling Systems. 103-123
• Andrea Baiocchi: Accurate Formulae for the Loss Probability Evaluation in a Large Class of Queueing Systems. 125-132
• H. Richard Gail, George A. Grover, Roch Guérin, Sidney L. Hantler, Zvi Rosberg, Moshe Sidi: Buffer Size Requirements Under Longest Queue First. 133-140
• Gennadi Falin: On the Performance Characteristics of a TASI System. 141-148
• Wolfgang Fischer, Kathleen S. Meier-Hellstern: The Markov-Modulated Poisson Process (MMPP) Cookbook. 149-171

Volume 18, Number 3, 1993

• Chiahon Chien: Seek Distances in Disks with Dual Arms and Mirrored Disks. 175-188
• Rakesh Kushwaha: Methodology for Predicting Performance of Distributed and Parallel Systems. 189-204
• Bruno Baynat, Yves Dallery: A Unified View of Product-Form Approximation Techniques for General Closed Queueing Networks. 205-224
• Man Li, Nicolas D. Georganas: ACAL-An Efficient Adaptive Chain Oriented Algorithm for the Analysis of Multiple Chain Closed Queueing Networks. 225-235
• Galen H. Sasaki: Input Buffer Requirements for Round Robin Polling Systems. 237-261