Some materials are available related to the keynotes from the MASCOTS 2001 keynotes talks.

1. High-Volume Web Servers: Traffic Patterns, Performance Implications and Resource Management, Dr. Mark S. Squillante, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

 
• Arun K. Iyengar, Mark S. Squillante, Li Zhang, "Analysis and Characterization of Large-Scale Web Server Access Patterns and Performance," World Wide Web, vol. 2, Baltzer, 1999.
• Mark S. Squillante, David D. Yao, Li Zhang, "Web Traffic Modeling and Web Server Performance Analysis," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December, 1999.
• Mark S. Squillante, David D. Yao, Li Zhang, "Internet Traffic: Periodicity, Tail Behavior and Performance Implications," Systems Performance Evaluation: Methodologies and Applications, E. Gelenbe (ed.), CRC Press, 2000.
• Zhen Liu, Mark S. Squillante, Joel L. Wolf, "On Maximizing Service-Level-Agreement Profits," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, (EC'01), Oct 2001.

 
2. Why we don't design correctly?, Dr. John Hines, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB

• Copy of presentation slides.

3. On-Line Simulation Techniques for Real-Time Management of Systems, Dr. Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Copy of presentation slides.