Performance Evaluation: Origins And Directions

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This monograph-like state-of-the-art survey presents the history, the key ideas, the success stories, and future challenges of performance evaluation and demonstrates the impact of performance evaluation on a variety of different areas through case studies in a coherent and comprehensive way. Leading researchers in the field have contributed 19 cross-reviewed topical chapters competently covering the whole range of performance evaluation, from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in numerous other fields. Additionally, the book contains one contribution on the role of performance evaluation in industry and personal accounts of four pioneering researchers describing the genesis of breakthrough results.The book will become a valuable source of reference and indispensable reading for anybody active or interested in performance evaluation.

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen 1769 3 Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Singapore Tokyo Günter Haring Christoph Lindemann Martin Reiser (Eds.) Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions 13 Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Volume Editors Günter Haring Universität Wien Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Informationssysteme Lenaugasse 2/8, 1080 Wien, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Christoph Lindemann Universität Dortmund, Informatik IV August-Schmidt-Straße 12, 44227 Dortmund, Germany E-mail: