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The applicability and accuracy of a general queuing network approach to the modeling of computer performance was tested in an actual production environment. The validation exercise established that such an approach had both sufficient flexibility and precision to be of use in long range planning efforts. The accuracy of the results further suggests that these techniques may be successfully extended to a wide range of uses.
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Giammo, T. Validation of a computer performance model of the exponential queuing network family. Acta Informatica 7, 137–152 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265767
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265767