Editorial

Message from the program chairs

This special issue of Performance Evaluation contains part of the proceedings of IFIP Performance 2011, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on October 18–20, 2011. Performance is the flagship conference of IFIP’s Working Group (WG) 7.3 and as such provides a leading international forum for high-quality research on the modeling, analysis, simulation, and evaluation of computer systems and communication networks.

This year, two types of papers were submitted — Regular Papers and Short

Technical Program Committee Members

Sara Alouf (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)

Lachlan Andrew (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Martin Arlitt (HP Labs, USA)

Thomas Bonald (Telecom ParisTech, France)

Sem Borst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Tim Brecht (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Peter Buchholz (TU Dortmund, Germany)

Mark Crovella (Boston University, USA)

Moez Draief (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Leonidas Georgiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Leana Golubchik (USC,

External Reviewers

Alexey Baraev (Create-Net, Italy)

Falko Bause (TU Dortmund, Germany)

Andrey Bernstein (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Marko Boon (Eindhoven University, The Netherlands)

Guner Celik (MIT, USA)

Leslie Cheung (USC, USA)

Sara Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University, USA)

Anshul Gandhi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Marios Gatzianas (CERTH, Greece)

Marco Gribaudo (Poitecnico of Milano, Italy)

Varun Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

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