@article{887961,
      recid = {887961},
      author = {Harchol-Balter, Mor,},
      title = {Performance modeling and design of computer systems  queueing theory in action / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      pages = {xxiii, 548 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"Computer systems design is full of conundrums. Tackling  the questions that systems designers care about, this book  brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science.  The book is written with computer scientists and engineers  in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as  well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and  readable, the book is highly approachable, even for  undergraduates, while still being thoroughly rigorous and  also covering a much wider span of topics than many  queueing books. Readers benefit from a lively mix of  motivation and intuition, with illustrations, examples and  more than 300 exercises - all while acquiring the skills  needed to model, analyze and design large-scale systems  with good performance and low cost. The exercises are an  important feature, teaching research-level counterintuitive  lessons in the design of computer systems. The goal is to  train readers not only to customize existing analyses but  also to invent their own"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/887961},
}