Praise for the Third Edition: "This is one of the best books available. Its excellent organizational structure allows quick reference to specific models and its clear presentation . . . solidifies the understanding of the concepts being presented."IIE Transactions on Operations EngineeringThoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the latest developments in the field, Fundamentals of Queueing Theory, Fourth Edition continues to present the basic statistical principles that are necessary to analyze the probabilistic nature of queues. Rather than presenting a narrow focus on the subject, this update illustrates the wide-reaching, fundamental concepts in queueing theory and its applications to diverse areas such as computer science, engineering, business, and operations research.This update takes a numerical approach to understanding and making probable estimations relating to queues, with a comprehensive outline of simple and more advanced queueing models. Newly featured topics of the Fourth Edition include:Retrial queuesApproximations for queueing networksNumerical inversion of transformsDetermining the appropriate number of servers to balance quality and cost of serviceEach chapter provides a self-contained presentation of key concepts and formulae, allowing readers to work with each section independently, while a summary table at the end of the book outlines the types of queues that have been discussed and their results. In addition, two new appendices have been added, discussing transforms and generating functions as well as the fundamentals of differential and difference equations. New examples are now included along with problems that incorporate QtsPlus software, which is freely available via the book's related Web site.With its accessible style and wealth of real-world examples, Fundamentals of Queueing Theory, Fourth Edition is an ideal book for courses on queueing theory at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners who analyze congestion in the fields of telecommunications, transportation, aviation, and management science.

Fundamentals of Queueing Theory

This ebook is the first authorized digital version of Kernighan and Ritchie's 1988 classic, The C Programming Language (2nd Ed.). One of the best-selling programming books published in the last fifty years, "K&R" has been called everything from the "bible" to "a landmark in computer science" and it has influenced generations of programmers. Available now for all leading ebook platforms, this concise and beautifully written text is a "must-have" reference for every serious programmers digital library.

As modestly described by the authors in the Preface to the First Edition, this "is not an introductory programming manual; it assumes some familiarity with basic programming concepts like variables, assignment statements, loops, and functions. Nonetheless, a novice programmer should be able to read along and pick up the language, although access to a more knowledgeable colleague will help."

The C programming language

Software engineering: theory and practice

This paper summarizes the current state of the art and recent trends in software engineering economics. It provides an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management. It surveys the field of software cost estimation, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.

Software engineering economics

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A Complete Bibliography of Publications in SIGCSE Bulletin: 2000{2009

Surgeon is a tool that helps programmers prepare software to be dynamically reconfigured. Dynamic reconfiguration environments allow programmers to change a distributed software application while it executes, but existing environments require programmers to manually adapt their software for reconfiguration. However, recent work on the automatic preparation of software for a distributed execution environment (software packaging) shows that interfacing software can be generated automatically, given abstract descriptions of the components and the desired application geometry. Surgeon merges these results so that programmers can dynamically reconfigure their applications without the overhead of manually adapting the software.

SURGEON: a packager for dynamically reconfigurable distributed applications

Software visualization of LR parsing and synthesized attribute evaluation

Clusters of workstations are increasingly being viewed as a cost effective alternative to parallel supercomputers. However, resource management and scheduling on workstations clusters is complicated by the fact that the number of idle workstations available for executing parallel applications is constantly fluctuating. We present a case for scheduling parallel applications on non dedicated workstation clusters using dynamic space sharing, a policy under which the number of processors allocated to an application can be changed during its execution. We describe an approach that uses application level checkpointing and data repartitioning for supporting dynamic space sharing and for handling the dynamic reconfiguration triggered when failure or owner activity is detected on a workstation being used by a parallel application. The performance advantages of dynamic space sharing are quantified through a simulation study, and experimental results are presented for the overhead of dynamic reconfiguration of a grid oriented data parallel application using our approach.

Supporting dynamic space-sharing on clusters of non-dedicated workstations

In this paper, we present a novel approach that enables students in graduate compiler courses to examine and experiment with a real compiler without becoming overwhelmed by complexity. The key to the idea is the use of a debugger directly on a compiler during the compilation process. By providing instructions on breakpoints and variables of interest, the student is only shown the relevant portions of the compiler; the rest is hidden. We describe our strategy of using exercise sessions targeted toward illustration of core compiler concepts such as lexical analysis, parsing and code generation.

Hide and show: using real compiler code for teaching

In this paper, we describe DyRecT (Dynamic Reconfiguration Toolkit) a software library that allows programmers to develop adaptively parallel message-passing MPI programs for clusters of workstations. DyRecT provides a high-level API that can be used for writing adaptive parallel HPF-like programs while hiding most of the details of the dynamic reconfiguration from the programmer. In addition, DyRecT provides support for making a wider variety of applications adaptive by exposing to the programmer a low-level library that implements many of the typical tasks performed during reconfiguration. We present experimental results for the overhead of dynamic reconfiguration of several benchmark applications using DyRecT.

Elizabeth L. White

Papers

SURGEON: a packager for dynamically reconfigurable distributed applications

Software visualization of LR parsing and synthesized attribute evaluation

Supporting dynamic space-sharing on clusters of non-dedicated workstations

Hide and show: using real compiler code for teaching

DyRecT: Software Support for Adaptive Parallelism on NOWs