The work of the Group is directed toward improving the art of analyzing and optimizing performance and costs of data processing systems through the use of analytical models. 

SCOPE

• optimized allocation of resources (such as memory, telecommunication lines, computer power, and points of concentration and switching), in distributed information processing systems;
• analyses of throughput and response time;
• analyses of reliability in the presence of failures of hardware, software or telecommunications;
• analyses of CPU main memory and I/O channel scheduling and allocating procedures;
• analyses of storage systems including memory hierarchies and geographically distributed data bases;
• comparison with simulations and with performance indices measured experimentally.