Performance Evaluation AA08-09

Welcome to the web 2008/2009 web site of Performance Evaluation. The course is not changed from last year, but we have a new colleague (Paolo Ballarini) who helps me with exercises and additional stuff.

Billboard

  • No news for the time being

Timetable

Tuesday 1:30--3:30 PM and Friday 3:30--5:30 PM, Room 106

Please, don't blame me for the timetable, it is assigned by the secretariat trying to optimize the entire Faculty.

 

Program and Methodology

Please, refer to ESSE3 and the syllabus relative to Performance Evaluation for the official course content.
A PDF version of the program is here , but this is not the official version that will be attached to your diploma supplement.

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Textbook

K.S. Trivedi,
"Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications",
Wiley-Interscience; 2001
ISBN: 0-471-33341-7
can be bought on-line AT Amazon or directly from the Wiley Web Site .

2-3 copies are available in the University and Faculties Libraries;

We also make some reference to:

G. Bolch, S. Greiner, H. de Meer, K.S. Trivedi,
"Queueing Networks and Markov Chains : Modeling and Performance Evaluation With Computer Science Applications",
Wiley-Interscience; 1998
ISBN: 0-471-19366-6
(can be bought on-line AT Amazon or directly from the Wiley Web Site).

This is a more advanced and complete textbook on Performance Modeling, with a lot of references to advanced material for model solutions.
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Exams

The exam is written, lasting normally 3 hours, mainly based on exercises, plus a possible oral integration that either you can ask if you're not satisfied with the written part (beware that the result is not necessarily additive!), or I can ask for, if I cannot formulate a proper judgement after the written part.
The exam can include exercises and theoretical, open questions as well.

Past Exams

  • Jan. 9, 2007 -- Text
  • Feb. 13, 2007 -- Text
  • July 18, 2007 -- Text
  • August 30, 2007 -- Text
  • January 9, 2008 -- Text
  • February 13, 2008 -- Text
  • January 8, 2009 -- Text
  • February 11, 2009 --  Text
  • June 24, 2009 -- Text
  • July 21, 2009 -- Text -- Results
Forthcoming Dates
  • Wednesday Sept. 9, 2009, 9.00 AM, Room 204


Refer to ESSE3 for the remaining burocracy.

Please remember to register for the exam before taking it!!! .
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Teaching Material

There is nothing that can substitute the textbook, but I post here all the material that can be useful in completing your preparation in performance modelling, starting from the slides I sometimes use in class.

Slides and lesson support

  • Some official definitions and taxonomy of evaluation and modelling PDF

Additional material

  • Thanks to Prof. Stefano Bonaccorsi, those who have not followed an in-depth course on Probability, can use his course "dispense" (in Italian).
  • Also in Italian are the following lecture notes on Markov Chains and Queueing Networks prepared by Profs. Marco Ajmone Marsan e Fabio Neri, who I thanks for the right of use they granted me. Please remember these are notes from a different course, thus they do not substitute the textbook, nor they cover all and only the material we do (while can cover some parts we do not or just mention).
  • Definitions and properties of transforms can be found on the The list is not complete and there are no theorems or demonstrations, nor many examples, but it is a good reference starting point.
  • Some useful summation formulae
  • Good material has been produces by Prof. Moshe Zukerman at the University of Melbourne, AU.
    Here is the pointer to the original material. Beware that some notations are slightly different form the one we use.

Exercises


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Meeting me

The most obvious place to query, ask for clarifications, rise doubts and so on is the class, so that everybody can intervene and be aware of clarifications. Further minor queries can be done at the end (or before) the lesson.
If additional time is needed for complex queries or long problems send me an e-mail for an appointment. Try to specify the reason in the e-mail, this helps me preparing the answer and helps you formalizing it. Please, avoi dropping-by the office. Normally I cannot receive you on the fly and the only result is a waste of time. I do not set up a formal receiving hour: you can come at any time, just take an appointment.
If you have small quick doubts I can also try to solve them via e-mail, so that you don't need to come to my office for a 30 second answer!

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