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Complex Systems Papers

1. C. Dabrowski and F. Hunt, Using Markov Chain Analysis to Study Dynamic Behaviour in Large-Scale Grid Systems , to appear in Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research, Wellington, NZ, January 2009.
   
   
2. C. Dabrowski. Reliability in Grid Computing Systems. to appear in the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience as part of a special issue on OGF work.
   
   
3. F. Hunt and V. Marbukh, Dynamic Routing and Congestion Control Through Random Assignment of Routes, to appear in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA 2008, Orlando FL, July 2008.
   
   
4. I. Beichl and B. Cloteaux, Generating Network Models Using the S-Metric, to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods, Las Vegas, NV, July 2008.
   
   
5. D. Genin and V. Marbukh, D. Genin and V. Marbukh, Toward Understanding of Metastability in Large-Scale Loss Networks with Mobile Users: Emergence and Implications for Performance, to appear in Proceedings of 12th World Multiconference on Systems, Orlando FL, June 2008.
   
   
6. V. Marbukh, Can TCP Metastability Explain Cascading Failures and Justify Flow Admission Control in the Internet? in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'08), June 2008.
   
   
7. V. Marbukh and K. Mills, Demand Pricing & Resource Allocation in Marketbased Compute Grids: A Model and Initial Results in Proceedings of ICN 2008, April 2008. .
   
   
8. I. Beichl and B. Cloteaux, Measuring the Effectiveness of the s-Metric to Produce Better Network Models, to appear in Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, Miami FL, Dec 2008.
   
   
9. C. Dabrowski, Investigating Resource Allocation in a Standards-Based Grid Compute Economy. National Institute of Standards and Technology: Gaithersburg, MD. Interagency Report 7463, November 2007.
   
   
10. V. Marbukh, Towards Understanding of Complex Communication Networks: Performance, Phase Transitions & Control to appear in a special issue of Sigmetrics "Performance Evaluation Review" DRAFT version MAMA07, June 13, 2007.
    
    
11. V. Marbukh and K. Mills, On Maximizing Provider Revenue in Market-based Compute Grids to appear in Proceedings of ICNS07, June 2007.
    
    
12. K. Mills and C. Dabrowski, Investigating Global Behavior in Computing Grids, Self-Organizing Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4124 ISBN 978-3-540-37658-3, pp. 120-136, Oct 2007.
    
    
13. K. Mills, A Brief Survey of Self-Organization in Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley Interscience, Vol. 7, No. 7, October 2007, in press.
    
    
14. V. Marbukh, S. Klink Decentralized control of large-scale networks as a game with local interactions: cross-layer TCP/IP optimization, ValueTools?, 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Nance France, Oct 2007.
    
    
15. V. Marbukh, Utility Maximization for Resolving Throughput/Reliability Trade-offs in an Unreliable Network with Multipath Routing, ValueTools?, 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Nance France, Oct 2007.
    
    
16. V. Marbukh, Metastability of fair bandwidth sharing under fluctuating demand and necessity of flow admission control in Electronics Letters, 13th September 2007, Vol 43, No 19.
    
    
17. V. Marbukh, Fair bandwidth sharing under flow arrivals/departures:effect of retransmissions on stability and performance, in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 35 Issue 2, September 2007.
    
    
18. K. Mills and C. Dabrowski, Can Economics-based Resource Allocation Prove Effective in a Computation Marketplace? to appear in Journal of Grid Computing.