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QEST
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
CaVi -- Simulation and Model Checking for Wireless Sensor Networks
CaVi provides a uniform interface to state-of-the-art simulation methods and formal verification methods for wireless sensor network. Simulation is suitable to examine the behavi...
Athanassios Boulis, Ansgar Fehnker, Matthias Fruth...
QEST
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation-Based CTMC Model Checking: An Empirical Evaluation
This paper provides an experimental study of the efficiency of simulation-based model-checking algorithms for continuous-time Markov chains by comparing: MRMC – the only tool t...
Joost-Pieter Katoen, Ivan S. Zapreev
QEST
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Nondeterministic Labeled Markov Processes: Bisimulations and Logical Characterization
We extend the theory of labeled Markov processes with internal nondeterminism, a fundamental concept for the further development of a process theory with abstraction on nondetermi...
Pedro R. D'Argenio, Nicolás Wolovick, Pedro...
QEST
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Integrating TPNs and Performance Bound Techniques in ITPN-PerfBound: A New Import Functionality
Abstract—ITPN-PerfBound is a graphical tool for the modeling and performance bound analysis of Interval Time Petri Nets (ITPN), that has been developed within the DrawNET modelin...
Elina Pacini Naumovich, Simona Bernardi
QEST
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Safety Analysis of an Airbag System Using Probabilistic FMEA and Probabilistic Counterexamples
—Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a technique to reason about possible system hazards that result from system or system component failures. Traditionally, FMEA does no...
Husain Aljazzar, Manuel Fischer, Lars Grunske, Mat...
QEST
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Performance Model of Zoned Disk Drives with I/O Request Reordering
—Disk drives are a common performance bottleneck in modern storage systems. To alleviate this, disk manufacturers employ a variety of I/O request scheduling strategies which aim ...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
QEST
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Mean-Field Analysis for the Evaluation of Gossip Protocols
—Gossip protocols are designed to operate in very large, decentralised networks. A node in such a network bases its decision to interact (gossip) with another node on its partial...
Rena Bakhshi, Lucia Cloth, Wan Fokkink, Boudewijn ...