VALUETOOLS 2013 - 7th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools - VALUETOOLS 2013

ValueTools 2013 is on methodologies and practices in modeling, performance evaluation and optimization of complex systems, gathering researchers from different communities, such as Computer Science, Networks and Telecommunications, Operations Research, Optimization, Control Theory and Manufacturing.
ValueTools 2013 solicits previously unpublished contributions that propose new performance evaluation methodologies and new tools.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A special issue in the the Performance Evaluation Journal is under investigation.
Topics:
Discrete event systems
Stochastic models
Simulation techniques
Game theory
Queues and network of queues
Mean field techniques
Large scale performance analysis
Control theory
Machine learning and neural networks
Performance optimization
Measurements and benchmarking
Modeling software tools
Software Systems
Application Areas:
Communication and computer networks
Distributed systems
Interdisciplinary methodologies (economic, biological and social models)
Manufacturing systems and supply chains
Resource allocation
Road traffic and transportation systems
Secure Networks
Smart grids