Welcome to ValueTools 2011
5th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
May 16-20, 2011. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (South of Paris), France
Scope
VALUETOOLS is an interdisciplinary conference which aims at gathering people from different communities using common advanced methodologies and tools for the purposes of performance evaluation, design, and model reduction. Traditionally, communities like the Communication Network, Computer Science, Control, Operation Research, and Signal Processing communities are involved in VALUETOOLS but the organization and steering committees encourage any community to contribute and share its know-how with other communities.
Conference Topics and Application Areas
Performance evaluation techniques will draw from the following:- Advanced simulation tools (simulation of rare events, parallel/distributed simulations, variance reduction techniques, large deviations, hybrid system simulation)
- Control theory (optimal control, multiobjective optimization and control, stochastic control, robust control and stabilization, model predictive control, hybrid and switched systems, control and performances, differential games control)
- Discrete event systems (Petri nets, max-plus algebra, automata, timed automata)
- Game theory (algorithmic game theory, dynamic games, equilibrium analysis, learning in games, mechanism design)
- Large system performance analysis (random matrix theory, mean field theory, types)
- Learning (learning automata, learning theory, machine learning, ODE approximations, stochastic differential equations)
- Monte Carlo methods (Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, sequential Monte Carlo methods)
- Queueing theory (Markovian queues and networks, network calculus, analytical methods, approximation methods, (in)sensitivity, dynamic Fluid Models, diffusion models, Dam processes, perturbation approaches, control of queues)
- Stochastic models (stochastic geometry, long-range dependence, self-similarity, point processes, traffic models and measurements)
- Other important topics (decision theory, game theory, viability theory, supervisory control, Reliability/performability tools, neural networks and decision tools, complex networks)
Envisaged applications are drawn from, but are not restricted to, the following areas:
- Communication networks
- Computer networks (including peer-to-peer systems and traffic control services)
- Computer systems (e.g., grid computing)
- Distributed systems (e.g., distributed control and distributed communication networks)
- Interdisciplinary methodologies (economic, biological and social models)
- Limit performance of detection, estimation, decoding techniques (e.g., Cramer-Rao bounds, Shannon limits)
- Machine learning
- Manufacturing systems and supply chains
- Network information theory
- Optimization
- Resource allocation
- Road traffic and transportation systems
- Secure Networks
- Public utility networks
- Telecommunications