Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications

Queueing Theory I.- A Batch-Service Queueing Model with a Discrete Batch Markovian Arrival Process.- Queueing System MAP/PH/N with Propagated Failures.- Analysis of a Discrete-Time Queueing System with an NT-Policy.- Packet Loss Minimization in Load-Balancing Switch.- Queueing Theory II.- The Preemptive Repeat Hybrid Server Interruption Model.- Networks of Symmetric Multi-class Queues with Signals Changing Classes.- Product-Form Solutions for Models with Joint-State Dependent Transition Rates.- The qnetworks Toolbox: A Software Package for Queueing Networks Analysis.- Specification Languages and Tools.- Rewriting Logic Based Performance Estimation of Embedded Systems.- A Formal Language toward the Unification of Model Checking and Performance Evaluation.- Security Evaluation of Layered Intrusion Tolerant Systems.- Stochastic PERT and CAST Logic Approach for Computer Support of Complex Operation Planning.- Telecommunication Systems I.- Perfect Sampling of Load Sharing Policies in Large Scale Distributed Systems.- Stochastic Comparisons for Performability of Telecommunication Systems.- Model-Based Stochastic Simulation of P2P VoIP Using Graph Transformation System.- Performance Evaluation of Media Segmentation Heuristics Using Non-markovian Multi-class Arrival Processes.- Telecommmunication Systems II.- A Formal Approach to Investigate the Performance of Modern E-commerce Services.- Leader Election in Anonymous Radio Networks: Model Checking Energy Consumption.- Upper Bound on Overall Delay in Wireless Broadband Networks with Non Real-Time Traffic.- Estimation.- Robustness of the Whittle Estimator Applied to Non-Gaussian Long-Range Dependent Processes.- Service Time Estimation with a Refinement Enhanced Hybrid Clustering Algorithm.- Invariant Embedding Technique and Its Applications for Improvement or Optimization of Statistical Decisions.- Prediction.- Prediction Model Selection and Spare Parts Ordering Policy for Efficient Support of Maintenance and Repair of Equipment.- Prediction-Based Dynamic Target Interception Using Discrete Markov Chains.- Neural Networks as Surrogate Models for Measurements in Optimization Algorithms.- Stochastic Modelling.- Limit Behavior of the Hybrid Approximation of Stochastic Process Algebras.- Analysis of an Automated Auction with Concurrent Multiple Unit Acceptance Capacity.- Congestive Collapse and Its Avoidance in a Dynamic Dial-a-Ride System with Time Windows.