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QEST 2008: The Programme
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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09:00-17:30
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Tutorials
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18:00-19:30
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Welcome reception
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Monday, September 15, 2008
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08:00-08:30
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Registration
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08:30-09:00
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Opening
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09:00-10:00
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Keynote: Michael Littman, from Rutgers, USA
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Autonomous Model Learning for Reinforcement Learning
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10:00-10:30
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Break
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10:30-12:30
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Session 1: Networking
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"A Control-theoretic Modeling Approach for Service
Differentiation in Multi-hop Ad-Hoc Networks"
Yimeng Yang, Boudewijn R. Haverkort and Geert J. Heijenk
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"On the Data Delivery Delay taken by Random Walks in Wireless Sensor Networks"
Issam Mabrouki, Gwillerm Froc and Xavier Lagrange
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"Analysis of an M/G/1 queue with repeated inhomogeneous vacations with application to IEEE 802.16e power saving mechanism"
Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman and Amar P. Azad
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Tool Presentations (at 12:00)
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"CaVi – Simulation and Model Checking for Wireless Sensor Networks"
Athanassis Boulis, Ansgar Fehnker, Matthias Fruth and Annabelle McIver
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"Performance Model Generation for MPSoC Design-Space Exploration"
B.D. Theelen
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"Möbius Trace Analysis with Traviando"
Ruth Lamprecht and Peter Kemper
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12:30-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 2: Quantitative Verification
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"Reduction Techniques for Model Checking Markov Decision Processes"
Frank Ciesinski, Christel Baier, Marcus Grober and Joachim Klein
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"Quantitative Model-Checking of One-Clock Timed Automata under Probabilistic Semantics"
Nathalie Bertrand, Patricia Bouyer, Thomas Brihaye and Nicolas Markey
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"Symbolic Partition Refinement with Dynamic Balancing of Time and Space"
Ralf Wimmer, Salem Derisavi and Holger Hermanns
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Tool Presentations (at 15:30)
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"Cell assisted APMC"
Alexandre Borghi, Thomas Herault, Richard Lassaigne and Sylvain Peyronnet
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"ProbDiVinE-MC: Multi-Core LTL Model Checker for Probabilistic Systems"
Jiri Barnat, Lubos Brim, Ivana Cerna, Milan Ceska and Jana Tumova
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"Prism2Promela"
Christopher Power and Alice Miller
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16:00-16:30
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Break
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16:30-18:30
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Session 3: Tools
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"KPC-Toolbox: Simple Yet Effective Trace Fitting Using Markovian Arrival Processes"
Giuliano Casale, Eddy Z. Zhang and Evgenia Smirni
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"VATS: Virtualized-aware Automated Test Service"
Sebastian Gaisbauer, Johannes Kirschnick, Nigel Edwards and Jerry Rolia
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"Symbolic Magnifying Lens Abstraction in Markov Decision Processes"
Pritam Roy, David Parker, Gethin Norman and Luca de Alfaro
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Tool Presentations (at 18:00)
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"Recent extensions to the stochasic process algebra tool CASPA"
Martin Riedl, Johann Schuster and Markus Siegle
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"A tool supporting evaluation of non-Markovian Fault Trees"
G.Bucci, L.Carnevali and E.Vicario
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"The performability tool P’ility"
Lucia Cloth and Boudewijn R. Haverkort
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18:30-20:30
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"Cheese and wine" extra session
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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08:00-08:30
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Registration
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08:30-09:30
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Keynote: Albert Benveniste, from INRIA, France
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Composing Web Services in an open world: QoS issues
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09:30-10:30
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Session 4: Performance Analysis I
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"A Joint Moments Based Analysis of Networks of MAP/MAP/1 Queues"
Andras Horvath, Gabor Horvath and Miklos Telek
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"Product Form Approximations for Communicating Markov Processes"
Peter Buchholz
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10:30-11:00
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Break
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11:00-12:00
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Session 5: Performance Analysis II
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"Discrete Time Markov chains competing over resources: product form steady-state distribution"
Jean-Michel Fourneau
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"Memory Efficient Calculation of Path Probabilities in Large Structured Markov Chains"
Paolo Ballarini and Andras Horvath
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12:00-13:30
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Lunch
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13:30-15:00
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Session 6: Counter-examples
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"Hintikka Games for PCTL on Labeled Markov Chains"
Harald Fecher, Michael Huth, Nir Piterman and Daniel Wagner
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"Regular Expressions for PCTL Counter-examples"
Berteun Damman, Tingting Han and Joost-Pieter Katoen
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"Debugging of Dependability Models Using Interactive Visualization of Counter-examples"
Husain Aljazzar and Stefan Leue
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15:15
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Departure to St Michel
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19:30
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Banquet
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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09:00-10:00
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Keynote: Peter Glynn, from Stanford, USA
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Linear Programming, Lyapunov Functions, and Performance Analysis
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10:00-11:30
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Break
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10:30-12:30
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Session 7: High-level Models
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"Automatic Translation of UML Sequence Diagrams into PEPA Models"
Mirco Tribastone and Stephen Gilmore
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"Analysis of large scale interacting systems by mean field method"
Andrea Bobbio, Marco Gribaudo and Miklos Telek
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"Polynomial Throughput Bounds for Equal Conflict Petri Nets with Multi-Guarded Transitions"
Jorge Julvez
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Tool Presentations (at 12:00)
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"New solvers for asymmetric systems in GreatSPN"
S. Baarir, M. Beccuti and G. Franceschinis
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"A Parallel and Distributed Analysis Pipeline for Performance Tree Evaluation"
Darren K. Brien, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J. Knottenbelt, Harini Kulatunga and Tamas Suto
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"An Experimental Framework for PIPE2"
Marc Melia, Catalina M. Llado, Ramon Puigjaner and Connie U. Smith
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12:30-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 8: Probabilistic and Timed Systems
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"Quasi-Birth-Death Processes, Tree-Like QBDs, Probabilistic 1-Counter Automata, and Pushdown Systems"
Kousha Etessami, Dominik Wo jtczak and Mihalis Yannakakis
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"Computing Expected Absorption Times for Parametric Determinate Probabilistic Timed Automata"
N. Chamseddine, M. Duflot, L. Fribourg, C. Picaronny and J. Sproston
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"Approximate analysis of probabilistic processes: logic, simulation and games"
Josee Desharnais, Francois Laviolette and Mathieu Tracol
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"Conflict-Tolerant Real-Time Features"
Deepak D'Souza, Madhu Gopinathan, S. Ramesh and Prahladavaradan Sampath
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16:00-16:30
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Break
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16:30-18:00
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Session 9: Applications
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"Cross-Profiling for Embedded Java Processors"
Walter Binder, Martin Schoeberl, Philippe Moret and Alex Villazon
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"Characterization of the E-commerce Storage Subsystem Workload"
Xi Zhang, Alma Riska and Erik Riedel
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"Modeling Peer-to-Peer Botnets"
Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek and William H. Sanders
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18:00-18:30
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Closing of QEST'08
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