Technical Program

09.15-09.30: opening

09.30-10.30: keynote by Marie-Ange Remiche: Exact Sojourn Time Distribution in an Online IPTV Recording System.

10.30-11.00: coffee break

11.00-12.30: session 1, applications:

• Tugrul Dayar and Gokce Nil Noyan:

  A Software Tool for the Steady-State Analysis of Google-like Stochastic Matrices.

• Gianna M. Del Corso and Francesco Romani:

  A Time-Aware Citation-Based Model for Evaluating Scientific Products.

• Paul Beekhuizen and Jacques Resing:

  Approximation of Discrete-Time Polling Systems via Structured Markov Chains.

12.30-14.00: lunch

14.00-15.30: session 2, theory:

• Alexander Zeifman, Yakov Satin, Sergey Shorgin and Vladimir Bening:

  On Mn(t)/Mn(t)/S Queues with Catastrophes.

• Sophie Hautphenne, Guy Latouche and Marie-Ange Remiche:

  Transient Features for Markovian Binary Trees.

• Lasse Leskelä:

  Computational Methods for Stochastic Relations and Markovian Couplings.

15.30-16.00: coffee break

16.00-17.00: session 3, tool support and work in progress:

• Dario Andrea Bini, Beatrice Meini, Sergio Steffè and Benny Van Houdt:

  Structured Markov Chains Solver: Tool Extension.

• Paolo Ballarini and András Horváth:

  Memory Efficient Analysis for a Class of Large Structured Markov Chains.