David Daly

Former group member (MS, 2001; Ph.D., 2005).
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Publications with the Performability Engineering Research Group

Möbius: An Extensible Tool for Performance and Dependability Modeling.
D. Daly, D. D. Deavours, J. M. Doyle, A. J. Stillman, and P. G. Webster. (99DAL01)
Digest of FastAbstracts presented at the 29th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-29), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 15-18, 1999, pp. 15-16.

Möbius: An Extensible Framework for Performance and Dependability Modeling.
D. Daly, D. D. Deavours, J. M. Doyle, A. J. Stillman, P. G. Webster, and W. H. Sanders. (99DAL02)
Tool Descriptions from the Multi-Workshop on Formal Methods in Performance Evaluation and Applications, Zaragoza, Spain, September 6-10, 1999.

Möbius: An Extensible Tool for Performance and Dependability Modeling.
D. Daly, D. D. Deavours, J. M. Doyle, P. G. Webster, and W. H. Sanders. (99DAL03)
Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, TOOLS 2000, Schaumburg, IL, March 27-31, 2000. In B. R. Haverkort, H. C. Bohnenkamp, and C. U. Smith (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1786, pp. 332-336. Berlin: Springer, 2000. [Springer Link entry]

A Connection Formalism for the Solution of Large and Stiff Models.
D. Daly and W. H. Sanders. (00DAL01)
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Simulation Symposium, Seattle, WA, April 22-26, 2001, pp. 258-265.
Develops a class of connection formalisms for solving large and stiff models. These formalisms are applied to models that are decomposable into two submodels, only one of which depends on the other. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Analysis of Connection as a Decomposition Technique.
D. Daly. (01DAL01)
Master’s Thesis, University of Illinois, 2001.

The Möbius Modeling Tool.
G. Clark, T. Courtney, D. Daly, D. Deavours, S. Derisavi, J. M. Doyle, W. H. Sanders, and P. Webster. (01CLA01)
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models, Aachen, Germany, September 11-14, 2001, pp. 241-250. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Overview: An Integrated Framework for Performance Engineering and Resource-Aware Compilation.
W. H. Sanders, C. Polychronopoulos, T. Huang, T. Courtney, D. Daly, D. Deavours, and S. Derisavi. (02SAN01)
NSF Next Generation Systems Program Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 15, 2002. (Presented but not published in a proceedings.)

Overview: An Integrated Framework for Performance Engineering and Resource-Aware Compilation.
W. H. Sanders, C. Polychronopoulos, T. Huang, T. Courtney, D. Daly, D. Deavours, and S. Derisavi. (02SAN03)
Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS ’02), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 15-19, 2002, pp. 173-180. [IEEE Xplore entry]

The Möbius Framework and Its Implementation.
D. D. Deavours, G. Clark, T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, J. M. Doyle, W. H. Sanders, and P. G. Webster. (01DEA05)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 28, no. 10, October 2002, pp. 956-969. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Modeling of Service-level Agreements for Composed Services.
D. Daly, G. Kar, and W. H. Sanders. (02DAL02)
Management Technologies for E-Commerce and E-Business Applications: Proceedings of the 13th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management, DSOM 2002, Montreal, Canada, October 21-23, 2002, pp. 4-15.

On Integrating the Möbius and Modest Modeling Tools.
H. Bohnenkamp, T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, H. Hermanns, J.-P. Katoen, R. Klaren, V. V. Lam, and W. H. Sanders. (03BOH01)
Tool paper in the Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, San Francisco, CA, June 22-25, 2003, p. 671. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Bounded Decomposition of Stochastic Models.
D. Daly and W. H. Sanders. (03DAL02)
in Extended Abstracts from PMCCS-6: the Sixth International Workshop on Performability Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems, Monticello, IL, September 5-7, 2003, pp. 1-4.

The Möbius Modeling Environment.
T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, V. Lam, and W. H. Sanders. (03COU01)
Tools of the 2003 Illinois International Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems, Universität Dortmund Fachbereich Informatik research report no. 781/2003, 2003, pp. 34-37.

Multi-formalism and Multi-solution-method Modeling Frameworks: The Möbius Approach.
W. H. Sanders, T. Courtney, D. Deavours, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, and V. Lam. (03SAN01)
Proceedings of the Symposium on Performance Evaluation – Stories and Perspectives, Vienna, Austria, December 5-6, 2003, pp. 241-256.

An Approach for Bounding Reward Measures in Markov Models Using Aggregation.
D. Daly, P. Buchholz, and W. H. Sanders. (04DAL03)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Coordinated Science Laboratory technical report UILU-ENG-04-2206 (CRHC-04-06), July 2004.

The Möbius Modeling Environment: Recent Developments.
T. Courtney, D. Daly, S. Derisavi, S. Gaonkar, M. Griffith, V. Lam, and W. H. Sanders. (04COU01)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2004), Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27-30, 2004, pp. 328-329. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Bounded Aggregation Techniques to Solve Large Markov Models.
D. M. Daly. (05DAL01)
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois, 2005.

A Preorder Relation for Markov Reward Processes.
D. Daly, P. Buchholz, and W. H. Sanders (05DAL02)
IBM Research Report RC23827 (W0512-025), December 6, 2005.

Bound-Preserving Composition for Markov Reward Models.
D. Daly, P. Buchholz, and W. H. Sanders. (05DAL04)
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2006, Riverside, CA, September 11-14, 2006, pp. 243-252. [IEEE Xplore entry]

A Preorder Relation for Markov Reward Processes.
D. Daly, P. Buchholz, and W. H. Sanders. (06DAL01)
Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 77, no. 11, 2007, pp. 1148-1157.


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