About the Authors

• Dr. Gunter Bolch is Academic Director of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Erlangen in Germany. He is a coauthor of MOSEL, a new and powerful specification language based on Markov chains. Dr. Bolch has published three books and dozens of articles on performance evaluation, computer systems analysis, and process automation.
• Dipl.-Inf. Stefan Greiner is a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Erlangen and Daimler Benz AG in Stuttgart, Germany. A coauthor of MOSEL, he has published a number of articles on performance modeling and is the recipient of a best-paper award at the ESS94 conference.
• Dr. Hermann de Meer is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He has written more than 30 articles on performance modeling, optimization, and high-speed networks with multimedia applications.
• Dr. Kishor S. Trivedi is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Duke University. The author of the bestselling textbook, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queueing and Computer Science Applications and coauthor of Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems, Professor Trivedi has also published more than 200 articles.