Sunday June 3

TUTORIAL (Room 223)

Performance Nonlinear Global Optimization Techniques And Applications

Mark Wachowiak

Registration

18:00 - -- -- Prague Tour / Welcome Party

Monday June 4

9:00 – 9:15 ECMS 2007 Opening Session (Meeting Hall IV)

9:15 – 10:15 ECMS 2007 Keynote Speech I

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 10:55 ASMTA 2007 Opening (Room 220)

Introductory Talk by Dr. Gunter Bolch, Honorary Chair

"Thirteen Years ASMTA: From ANMT'94 to ASMTA'07"

10:55 – 12:45 Session 1: Traffic Modelling and Fitting Techniques

Session Chair: Armin Heindl, Germany

Gabor Horvath (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Explicit phase-type distribution fitting in Laplace transform domain

Andriy Panchenko, Peter Buchholz (University of Dortmund, Germany)

A hybrid algorithm for parameter fitting of Markovian arrival processes

Maria-Estrella Sousa-Vieira (University of Vigo, Spain)

Mixed modeling of the correlation structure of video traffic

Sebastian Kempken, Wolfram Luther, Gerhard Hasslinger

(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; University of Darmstadt, Germany)

Parameter estimation for semi-Markov models for mobile video traffic

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 – 15:25 Session 3: Queueing Systems (Room 220)

Session Chair: Gabor Horvath, Hungary

Zsolt Saffer (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

An introduction to classical cyclic polling model

Chesoong Kim, Alexander Dudin, Valentina Klimenok, Valentina Khramova,

Sang Cheon Lee (Sangji University, South Korea; Belarusian State University, Belarus;

Gyeong Sang National University, South Korea)

Multi-server loss queueing system operating in random environment

A. Krishnamoorthy, Sukumaran Babu (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India)

MAP/(PH,PH)/c retrial queue With self-generation of priorities and

non-preemptive service

Patrick Wuechner, Hermann de Meer, Gunter Bolch, Janos Roszik,

Janos Sztrik (University of Passau, Germany; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany;

University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Modeling finite-source retrial queueing systems with unreliable

heterogeneous servers and different service policies using MOSEL

15:25 – 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 – 17:30 Session 6: Network Models and Networking Issues (Room 220)

Session Chair: Gunter Bolch, Germany

Raffaele Bolla, Mirko Eickhoff, Krzysztof Pawlikowski, Michele Sciuto

(University of Genoa, Italy; University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Modeling file popularity in peer-to-peer file sharing systems

Jean-Michel Fourneau, Houssame Yahiaoui

(University of Versailles, France; INRIA Grenoble, France)

Modelling the effects of a worm propagation on a BGP router

Dietmar Tutsch, Sebastian Russin, Daniel Lüdtke

(University of Technology Berlin, Germany)

Analytical modeling of flit-based partial cut-through switching

17:45 - -- -- Departure for Prague Tours

Tuesday June 5

9:00 – 10:00 ECMS 2007 Keynote Speech II (Meeting Hall IV)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30 Session 2: Network Traffic and Protocols (Room 220)

Session Chair: Dietmar Tutsch, Germany

Hans-Peter Schwefel, Imad Antonios, Lester Lipsky

(Aalborg University, Denmark; Southern Connecticut State University, USA;

University of Connecticut, USA)

Performance-relevant network traffic correlation

Stephan Heckmueller, Bernd Wolfinger (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Load transformations of Markovian arrival processes

Sergey Andreev, Andrey Turlikov, Alexey Vinel

(State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Russia)

Performance analysis of a high-speed ultra-wideband WPAN MAC

Koen De Turck, Stijn De Vuyst, Sabine Wittevrongel (Ghent University, Belgium)

Performance of a class of retransmission protocols in case of variable

feedback delays

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:10 Session 4: Queueing Systems and Networks (Room 220)

Session Chair: Alexander Dudin, Belarus

Dieter Fiems, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel (Ghent University, Belgium)

Performance of a partially shared buffer

Remco Litjens, Richard Boucherie (TNO ICT, The Netherlands; University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Analysis of a generic model for a bottleneck link in an integrated

services communications network

Manuel Martos (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

A numerical analysis of the delay in a tandem queue with blocking

and interference

Ciro D'Apice, Alexander Pechinkin, Sergey Shorgin

(University of Salerno, Italy; Institute of Informatics Problems, Russia)

Decomposition of exponential G-networks with dependent service and

the route change

15:10 – 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 – 17:20 Session 7: Advanced Markovian Models (Room 220)

Session Chair: Remco Litjens, The Netherlands

Martin Qvist, Hans-Peter Schwefel, Martin Hansen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

A quantitative decision model for bottleneck link upgrades in packet-switched networks

Marie-Ange Remiche, Miguel de Vega Rodrigo, Laurent Schumacher, Hugues Van Peteghem

(Free University of Brussels, Belgium; University of Namur, Belgium)

Performance of downlink shared channels in UMTS scenarios using Markov fluid process

Claudia Krull, Graham Horton (University of Magdeburg, Germany)

Expanded hidden Markov models: allowing symbol emissions at state changes

20:00 – - - - Conference Dinner

Wednesday June 6

9:00 – 10:00 ECMS 2007 Keynote Speech III (Meeting Hall IV)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30 Session 5: Modeling and Analysis Techniques (Room 220)

Session Chair: Krzysztof Pawlikowski, New Zealand

Wlodek Zuberek (Memorial University, Canada)

Modeling and analysis of simultaneous multithreading

Simonetta Balsamo, Andrea Marin (University of Venezia. Italy)

On representing multiclass M/M/k queues by generalized stochastic Petri nets

Johann Schuster, Markus Siegle (University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany)

A multilevel algorithm based on binary decision diagrams

Freimut Brenner (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Absorbing joint Markov chains: exploiting compositionality for cumulative measures

12:30 – 13:00 ECMS 2007 Closing Session (Meeting Hall V)

ECMS Chair, General Co-Chairs and Program Chair

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch