Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.4 [Performance of Systems] -- modeling techniques; D.4.8 [Operating Systems]: Performance -- queuing theory, simulation; I.6.8 [Simulation and Modeling]: Types of Simulation -- discrete event
General Terms: Design, Performance, Theory
Additional Key Words and Phrases: Gradient estimation, networks of queues, perturbation analysis, sensitivity analysis, simulation
Selected references
- Rajan Suri. Infinitesimal perturbation analysis for general discrete event systems. Journal of the ACM, 34(3):686-717, July 1987.