Technical Program

Saturday, June 12

1:30 - 2:00 A Recursive Analysis Technique for Multi-Dimensionally Infinite Markov Chains.
T. Osogami, A. Wierman, M. Harchol-Balter, A. Scheller-Wolf (Carnegie Mellon University).
2:00 - 2:30 An Efficient Approximate Technique for Solving Fluid Models.
A.P.C. da Silva, R.M.M. Leao, E. de Souza e Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro).
2:30 - 3:00 Two Problems in Internet Reliability: New Questions for Old Models.
Y. Kogan, G. Choudhury (AT&T Labs).
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 Formalizing SMART Scheduling.
A. Wierman, M. Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University).
4:00 - 4:30 How Fair is Prioritization in Queues.
D. Raz (Tel-Aviv University), B. Avi-Itzhak (Rutgers University), H. Levy (Tel-Aviv University).
4:30 - 5:00 On the Relationship between Coefficient of Variation and the Performance of M/G/1-FB Queues.
H. Feng, V. Misra (Columbia University).
5:00 - 5:30 Dynamic Scheduling of Multiclass Open Queueing Networks in a Slowly Changing Environment.
J. Chang, H. Ayhan, J. Dai (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Sunday, June 13

9:00 - 9:30 Towards Self Managing Distributed Systems Capable of Resolving Trade-offs among Competing Performance Criteria.
V. Marbukh (National Institute of Standards and Technology).
9:30 - 10:00 Cost Minimization of Multi-Tiered e-Business Infrastructure with End-to-End Delay Guarantees.
W. Lin, Z. Liu, C.H. Xia, L. Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center).
10:00 - 10:30 Two Optimal Peer Selection Problems.
M. Adler (University of Massachusetts), R. Kumar, K. Ross (Polytechnic University), D. Rubenstein (Columbia University), D. Turner (California State University), D.D. Yao (Columbia University).
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Content Distribution for Seamless Transmission.
E.G. Coffman, Jr., A. Constantinides, D. Rubenstein (Columbia University), B. Shepherd (Bell Labs), A. Stavrou (Columbia University).
11:30 - 12:00 An Asymptotic Optimality of the Transposition Rule for Linear Lists.
D. Gamarnik, P. Momcilovic (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center).
12:00 - 12:30 DNA-Based Computation Times.
Y. Baryshnikov (Bell Labs), E.G. Coffman, Jr. (Columbia University), P. Momcilovic (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center).
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Performance of a Distributed Scheduling Protocol for TWIN.
I. Saniee, I. Widjaja, J. Morrison (Bell Labs).
2:00 - 2:30 Performance of TCP-Friendly Streaming Sessions in the Presence of Heavy-Tailed Elastic Flows.
R. Bekker, S. Borst, R. Nunez-Queija (Eindhoven University of Technology and CWI).
2:30 - 3:00 Asymptotic Regimes and Approximations for Discriminatory Processor Sharing.
G. van Kessel, R. Nunez-Queija (Eindhoven University of Technology), S.C. Borst (CWI).
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 Optimal Distributed Multicast Routing: Theory and Applications.
Y. Cui, Y. Xue, K. Nahrstedt (University of Illinois).
4:00 - 4:30 Control and Pricing in Stochastic Networks with Concurrent Resource Occupancy.
X. Li, D.D. Yao (Columbia University).
4:30 - 5:00 Optimal Probabilistic Routing in Distributed Parallel Queues.
X. Guo, Y. Lu, M.S. Squillante (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center).

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