Gunter Bolch

GUNTER BOLCH, PhD, is Academic Director in the Department ofComputer Science, University of Erlangen. He is a coauthor ofMOSEL, a powerful specification language based on Markov chains.Hehas published five textbooks and more than 130 articles onperformance modeling of computer and communication systems andapplications. STEFAN GREINER, PhD, is Researcher at the DaimlerChryslerAG. He is coauthor of MOSEL and the recipient of the best paperaward at the ESS94conference. HERMANN de MEER, PhD, is Professor in the Faculty ofMathematicsand Computer Science, University of Passau. He holds achair in the Computer Networking and Communications Department; haspublished more than eighty peer-reviewed articles on performancemodeling, computer networking, self-organization, quality ofservice, and peer-to-peer systems; and holds several internationalpatents on related topics. KISHOR S. TRIVEDI, PhD, is Chaired Professor in theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and theDepartment of Computer Science, Duke University. A Fellow of IEEE,he is the author of the bestselling textbook Probability andStatistics with Reliability, Queueing, and Computer ScienceApplications, Second Edition, published by Wiley.