Performance Evaluation, Volume 56

Volume 56, Numbers 1-4, March 2004

• Sachin Garg, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk:
  Dependable Systems and Networks-Performance and Dependability Symposium (DSN-PDS) 2002: Selected Papers. 1-2
  
• Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, Ramin Sadre, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Alexander Ost:
  The pseudo-self-similar traffic model: application and validation. 3-22
  
• Peter Buchholz:
  Adaptive decomposition and approximation for the analysis of stochastic Petri nets. 23-52
  
• Shuo Chen, Jun Xu, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Keith Whisnant:
  Modeling and evaluating the security threats of transient errors in firewall software. 53-72
  
• Michela Meo, Marco Ajmone Marsan:
  Resource management policies in GPRS systems. 73-92
  
• Olivia Das, C. Murray Woodside:
  Analyzing the effectiveness of fault-management architectures in layered distributed systems. 93-120
  
• Andrea Bobbio, András Horváth, Miklós Telek:
  The scale factor: a new degree of freedom in phase-type approximation. 121-144
  
• Andrew S. Miner:
  Implicit GSPN reachability set generation using decision diagrams. 145-165
  
• Bharat B. Madan, Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, Kishor S. Trivedi:
  A method for modeling and quantifying the security attributes of intrusion tolerant systems. 167-186
  
• Marco Vieira, Henrique Madeira:
  Joint evaluation of recovery and performance of a COTS DBMS in the presence of operator faults. 187-212
  
• George Candea, James Cutler, Armando Fox:
  Improving availability with recursive microreboots: a soft-state system case study. 213-248
  
• Ann T. Tai, William H. Sanders, Leon Alkalai, Savio N. Chau, Kam S. Tso:
  Performability analysis of guarded-operation duration: a translation approach for reward model solutions. 249-276
  
• Cláudia Betous-Almeida, Karama Kanoun:
  Construction and stepwise refinement of dependability models. 277-306