SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 45

Volume 45, Number 1, June 2017

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  Bruce E. Hajek, Sewoong Oh, Augustin Chaintreau, Leana Golubchik, Zhi-Li Zhang:
  Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, June 05 - 09, 2017. ACM 2017, ISBN 978-1-4503-5032-7 [contents]

Volume 45, Number 2, Setember 2017

Special Issue on The Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2017)

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  Jiankui Yang, David D. Yao, Heng-Qing Ye:
  On the Optimality of Reflection Control, with Production-Inventory Applications. 3-5
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  Eugene A. Feinberg, Jefferson Huang:
  Strongly Polynomial Algorithms for Transient and Average-Cost MDPs. 6-8
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  Gauri Joshi:
  Boosting Service Capacity via Adaptive Task Replication. 9-11
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  Mehmet Fatih Aktas, Pei Peng, Emina Soljanin:
  Effective Straggler Mitigation: Which Clones Should Attack and When? 12-14
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  Weixuan Lin, John Z. F. Pang, Eilyan Bitar, Adam Wierman:
  Networked Cournot Competition in Platform Markets: Access Control and Efficiency Loss. 15-17
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  Tyler Maxey, Hakjin Chung, Hyun-Soo Ahn, Rhonda Righter:
  When is Anarchy Beneficial? 18-20
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  Nitish K. Panigrahy, Jian Li, Don Towsley:
  Hit Rate vs. Hit Probability Based Cache Utility Maximization. 21-23
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  Bo Jiang, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley:
  LRU Cache under Stationary Requests. 24-26
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  Gautam Goel, Niangjun Chen, Adam Wierman:
  Thinking Fast and Slow: Optimization Decomposition Across Timescales. 27-29
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  Palma London, Niangjun Chen, Shai Vardi, Adam Wierman:
  Distributed Optimization via Local Computation Algorithms. 30-32
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  Angelos Aveklouris, Yorie Nakahira, Maria Vlasiou, Bert Zwart:
  Electric vehicle charging: a queueing approach. 33-35
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  Ziv Scully, Guy E. Blelloch, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf:
  Optimally Scheduling Jobs with Multiple Tasks. 36-38
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  Yuliy M. Baryshnikov, Abram Magner:
  Large Deviations for Increasing Subsequences of Permutations and a Concurrency Application. 39-41
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  Arnab Ganguly, Kavita Ramanan, Philippe Robert, Wen Sun:
  A Large-Scale Network with Moving Servers. 42-44
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  Sergey Foss, Alexander L. Stolyar:
  Join-Idle-Queue system with general service times: Large-scale limit of stationary distributions. 45-47
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  Yingdong Lu, Mark S. Squillante, Chai Wah Wu:
  Nearly Completely Decomposable Epidemic-Like Stochastic Processes with Time-Varying Behavior. 48-50

Proceedings of the 2017 GreenMetrics Workshop

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  Joshua Comden, Zhenhua Liu, Yue Zhao:
  Distributed Algorithm Design for Probabilistic Demand Response. 52-54
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  Mohammad Hassan Hajiesmaili, Minghua Chen, Enrique Mallada, Chi-Kin Chau:
  Summary of Recent Results: Crowd-Sourced Storage-Assisted Demand Response in Microgrids. 55-57
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  Tan N. Le, Jie Liang, Zhenhua Liu, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Jayakrishnan Nair, Bong Jun Choi:
  Optimal Energy Procurement for Geo-distributed Data Centers in Multi-timescale Electricity Markets. 58-63
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  Wei Wang, Nanpeng Yu:
  Phase Balancing in Power Distribution Network with Data Center. 64-69
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  Hitoshi Oi:
  A Case Study of Energy Efficiency on a Heterogeneous Multi-Processor. 70-72
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  Qiang Wang, Xiaowen Chu:
  GPGPU Power Estimation with Core and Memory Frequency Scaling. 73-78
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  Dong Chen, David E. Irwin:
  Black-box Solar Performance Modeling: Comparing Physical, Machine Learning, and Hybrid Approaches. 79-84
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  Pengcheng You, Youxian Sun, John Z. F. Pang, Steven H. Low, Minghua Chen:
  Battery Swapping Assignment for Electric Vehicles: A Bipartite Matching Approach. 85-87
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  Thinh T. Doan, Subhonmesh Bose, Carolyn L. Beck:
  Distributed Lagrangian Method for Tie-Line Scheduling in Power Grids under Uncertainty. 88-90
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  Mohammad A. Islam, Shaolei Ren, Adam Wierman:
  A First Look at Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers. 91-93
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  John Z. F. Pang, Linqi Guo, Steven H. Low:
  Load-side Frequency Regulation with Limited Control Coverage. 94-96

Special Issue on the Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Network Security (CINS) 2017

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  Andjelka Kelic:
  Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructure Modeling. 99-102
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  Linqi Guo, Chen Liang, Steven H. Low:
  Monotonicity Properties and Spectral Characterization of Power Redistribution in Cascading Failures. 103-106
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  Jorik Oostenbrink, Fernando A. Kuipers:
  Computing the Impact of Disasters on Networks. 107-110
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  Saleh Soltan, Gil Zussman:
  Algorithms for Power Grid State Estimation after Cyber-Physical Attacks. 111-114
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  Daniel Bienstock, Mauro Escobar:
  Computing undetectable attacks on power grids. 115-118
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  George Stergiopoulos, Evangelos Valvis, Foivos Anagnou-Misyris, Nick Bozovic, Dimitris Gritzalis:
  Interdependency analysis of junctions for congestion mitigation in Transportation Infrastructures. 119-124
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  Juntao Chen, Corinne Touati, Quanyan Zhu:
  A Dynamic Game Analysis and Design of Infrastructure Network Protection and Recovery: 125. 128
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  Jianguo Ding, Yacine Atif, Sten F. Andler, Birgitta Lindström, Manfred A. Jeusfeld:
  CPS-based Threat Modeling for Critical Infrastructure Protection. 129-132

Volume 45, Number 3, December 2017

Keynote Talk: Xunyu Zhou

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  Xunyu Zhou:
  Who Are I: : Intrapersonal Conflicts in Performance Measure and Control. 1

Session 1: Data Centers I

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  Ali Yekkehkhany, Avesta Hojjati, Mohammad Hassan Hajiesmaili:
  GB-PANDAS: : Throughput and heavy-traffic optimality analysis for affinity scheduling. 2-14
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  Diego Goldsztajn, Andrés Ferragut, Fernando Paganini, Matthieu Jonckheere:
  Controlling the number of active instances in a cloud environment. 15-20
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  Gauri Joshi:
  Synergy via Redundancy: Boosting Service Capacity with Adaptive Replication. 21-28

SESSION 2: Networks

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  Ting He:
  Distributed Link Anomaly Detection via Partial Network Tomography. 29-42
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  Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Ting He, Thomas La Porta:
  Parsimonious Tomography: Optimizing Cost-Identifiability Trade-off for Probing-based Network Monitoring. 43-55
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  Bart Jansen, Timothy Goodwin, Varun Gupta, Fernando A. Kuipers, Gil Zussman:
  Performance Evaluation of WebRTC-based Video Conferencing. 56-68

SESSION 3: Network Science

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  Sarat Babu Moka, Sandeep Juneja, M. R. H. Mandjes:
  Analysis of Perfect Sampling Methods for Hard-sphere Models. 69-75
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  Alexandre Hollocou, Thomas Bonald, Marc Lelarge:
  Multiple Local Community Detection. 76-83
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  Yuliy M. Baryshnikov, Abram Magner:
  Large Deviations for Increasing Subsequences of Permutations and a Concurrency Application. 84-89
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  Sujay Bhatt, Vikram Krishnamurthy:
  Incentivized Information Fusion with Social Sensors. 90-95

Keynote Talk: Emmanuel Abbe

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  Emmanuel Abbe:
  Learning from graphical data. 96

Session 4: Limits

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  Fengyou Sun, Yuming Jiang:
  A Statistical Property of Wireless Channel Capacity: Theory and Application. 97-108
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  Fabio Cecchi, Peter M. van de Ven, Seva Shneer:
  Mean-field limits for multi-hop random-access networks. 109-122
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  Fabio Cecchi, Sem C. Borst, J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden, Phil Whiting:
  Spatial Mean-Field Limits for Ultra-Dense Random-Access Networks. 123-136

Session 5: Queueing Theory

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  Sandeep Juneja, Nahum Shimkin:
  On the Computation of Dynamic User Equilibrium in the Multiclass Transient Fluid Queue. 137-142
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  Miklós Telek, Benny Van Houdt:
  Response Time Distribution of a Class of Limited Processor Sharing Queues. 143-155
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  Y. C. Tay:
  A technique to estimate a system's asymptotic delay and throughput. 156-159

Session 6: Resource Allocation

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  Yingdong Lu, Mark S. Squillante, Chai Wah Wu:
  Epidemic-Like Stochastic Processes with Time-Varying Behavior: Structural Properties and Asymptotic Limits. 160-166
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  Zaid Allybokus, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Jérémie Leguay, Lorenzo Maggi:
  Lower Bounds for the Fair Resource Allocation Problem. 167-173
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  Ruidi Chen, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis:
  Outlier Detection Using Robust Optimization with Uncertainty Sets Constructed from Risk Measures. 174-179
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  Jiankui Yang, David D. Yao, Heng-Qing Ye:
  On the Optimality of Reflection Control, with Production-Inventory Applications. 180-183

Keynote Talk: Albert Greenberg

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  Albert G. Greenberg:
  Azure Networking. 184

Session 7: Energy and Labs

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  Tan N. Le, Jie Liang, Zhenhua Liu, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Jayakrishnan Nair, Bong Jun Choi:
  Optimal Energy Procurement for Geo-distributed Data Centers in Multi-timescale Electricity Markets. 185-197
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  Hale Cetinay, Saleh Soltan, Fernando A. Kuipers, Gil Zussman, Piet Van Mieghem:
  Analyzing Cascading Failures in Power Grids under the AC and DC Power Flow Models. 198-203
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  Eleonora Deiana, Guy Latouche, Marie-Ange Remiche:
  Fluid flow model for energy-aware server performance evaluation. 204-209
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  Debasis Mitra, Qiong Wang:
  Management Strategies for Industrial Laboratories with Knowledge Memory. 210-216

Session : Data Center II

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  Yingdong Lu, Siva Theja Maguluri, Mark S. Squillante, Tonghoon Suk, X. Wu:
  Optimal Energy Procurement for Geo-distributed Data Centers in Multi-timescale Electricity Markets. 217-223
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  Mehmet Fatih Aktas, Pei Peng, Emina Soljanin:
  Straggler Mitigation by Delayed Relaunch of Tasks. 224-231
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  Weina Wang, Siva Theja Maguluri, R. Srikant, Lei Ying:
  Heavy-Traffic Delay Insensitivity in Connection-Level Models of Data Transfer with Proportionally Fair Bandwidth Sharing. 232-245

Tutorial Sessions

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  Giuliano Casale, Giuseppe Serazzi, Lulai Zhu:
  Performance Evaluation with Java Modelling Tools: : A Hands-on Introduction. 246-247
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  Giacomo Nannicini:
  Straggler Mitigation by Delayed Relaunch of Tasks. 248
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  Siva Theja Maguluri, R. Srikant, Weina Wang:
  The Drift Method for Heavy Traffic Limits, with Applications in Data Centers and Networks. 249
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  Anton Braverman, Jim G. Dai:
  Stein's Method for Steady-State Approximations: Error Bounds and Engineering Solutions. 250

Volume 45, Number 4, March 2018

Performance Evaluation Review

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  Vishal Misra:
  Session details: Performance Evaluation Review.
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  Konstantin Avrachenkov, Tejas Bodas:
  On the equivalence between multiclass processor sharing and random order scheduling policies. 2-6
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  Ranjan Pal, Leana Golubchik, Konstantinos Psounis, Pan Hui:
  Improving Cyber-Security via Profitable Insurance Markets. 7-15