TY  - CHAP
T2  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST) 
EP  - 307
ID  - eprints2574
SP  - 307
N2  - This tutorial is concerned with the performance evaluation of hardware/software systems using ordinary differential equations which approximate large-scale continuous-time Markov processes derived from models described with the stochastic process algebra PEPA. The tutorial is divided into three parts. The first part illustrates the main theoretical results. The second part gives an overview of a software tool-the PEPA Eclipse Plug-in-which supports the differential analysis of PEPA. In the last part, this approach is related to other efficient analysis techniques in the literature. In particular, a comparison against layered queues is presented.
SN  - 978-1-4244-8082-1 
PB  - IEEE
A1  - Tribastone, Mirco
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5600373&isnumber=5600366
KW  - Algebra; Analytical models; Approximation methods; Markov processes; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Tutorials

Y1  - 2010/09//
AV  - none
TI  - Scalable differential analysis of large process algebra models
ER  -