Monday, June 30, 2014

11:30-12:30	Registration
12:30-13:45	Lunch
13:45-14:00	Opening
14:00-15:30	Invited talk Søren Asmussen: Lévy Processes, Phase-Type Distributions and Martingales
15:30-16:00	Break
16:00-17:30	Session 1: Interacting systems Rosario Delgado, Evsey Morozov: Stability analysis of some networks with interacting servers Francesca Cordero, Chiara Fornari, Marco Gribaudo, Daniele Manini: Markovian Agents Population Models to study Cancer Evolution Marily Nika, Dieter Fiems, Koen De Turck, William Knottenbelt: Modelling Interacting Epidemics in Overlapping Populations

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

9:00-10:30	Invited talk Ivo Adan: Multi-class queueing applications in automated warehousing systems
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Session 2: System optimization Jose Nino-Mora: A near optimal dynamic policy for cache refresh scheduling Huaming Wu, Katinka Wolter: Dynamic Transmission Scheduling and Link Selection in Mobile Cloud Computing Ouazene Yassine, Yalaoui Alice, Yalaoui Farouk, Chehade Hicham: Non-linear programming method for buffer allocation in unreliable production lines
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session 3: Queueing systems Niek Baer, Richard J. Boucherie, Jan-Kees van Ommeren: The PH/PH/1 multi-threshold queue Wojciech Kempa: Time-Dependent Behavior of Queueing Delay in GI/M/1/K-type Model with N-policy: Analytical Study with Applications to WSNs Willem Mélange, Joris Walraevens, Dieter Claeys, Bart Steyaert, Herwig Bruneel: The impact of class clustering on a system with a global FCFS service discipline
15:30-16:00	Break
16:00-17:30	Session 4: Simulation and statistical analysis Thu Ha Dao Thi, Jean-Michel Fourneau, Franck Quessette: Time-Parallel Simulation for Stochastic Automata Networks and Stochastic Process Algebra Nicholas Nechval: Statistical Techniques for Validation of Simulation and Analytic Stochastic Models Julia Kuhn, Wendy Ellens and Michel Mandjes: Detecting Changes in the Scale of Dependent Gaussian Processes: a Large Deviations Approach
19:00-	Conference banquet

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

9:00-10:30	Session 5: Queueing applications Tuan Phung-Duc: Impatient Customers in Power-Saving Data Centers Xuelu Zhang, Jinting Wang, Qing Ma: Convexity Results for Queueing System with Variable Service Rate Osama Salameh, Koen De Turck, Herwig Bruneel, Chris Blondia, Sabine Wittevrongel: On the performance of secondary users in a cognitive radio network
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:30	Session 6: Task and workload modeling Christoph Möbius, Waltenegus Dargie: Statistical Analysis of the Workload of a Video Hosting Server Davide Cerotti, Marco Gribaudo, Ingolf Krüeger, Pietro Piazzolla, Filippo Seracini, Giuseppe Serazzi: Throughput maximization with multiclass workloads and resource constraints Søren Asmussen, Lester Lipsky, Stephen Thompson: Failure Recovery in Computing and Data Transmission: RESTART and Checkpointing
12:30-12:45	Closing
12:45-14:00	Lunch