@incollection{eprints2584,
           title = {Fluid limits of queueing networks with batches},
       booktitle = {Proceedings of the third joint WOSP/SIPEW international conference on Performance Engineering - ICPE '12},
           pages = {45--56},
            year = {2012},
          author = {Luca Bortolussi and Mirco Tribastone},
       publisher = {ACM},
        abstract = {This paper presents an analytical model for the performance prediction of queueing networks with batch services and batch arrivals, related to the fluid limit of a suitable single-parameter sequence of continuous-time Markov chains and interpreted as the deterministic approximation of the average behaviour of the stochastic process. Notably, the underlying system of ordinary differential equations exhibits discontinuities in the right-hand sides, which however are proven to yield a meaningful solution. A substantial numerical assessment is used to study the quality of the approximation and shows very good accuracy in networks with large job populations.},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2584/}
}