PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS
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Recent Publications & Presentations

• Personal Computing Technologies - or - Ever Feel Like the World is Passing You By and You Wanna Catch Up Fast? (.pdf)- Do buzzwords like Windows Mobile, PDA, iPod, RSS, SKYPE, AIM, Blog, Torrent, mp4, and del.icio.us make any sense to you? Catch up on current personal technologies and see what you can make use of right now!

  • HANDOUT (.pdf)
     

• How I Setup a Fully Functional AND Legal Web Server with No Money with that Old PC I Wasn't Using Anymore!  -or -Configuration & Deployment of a Residential Web Server .  Wanna create a working web site from home?  I did it with a 7-year old Pentium-II - and you can even do this with a dial-up Internet connection!

  • HANDOUT in Powerpoint
     

• Click HERE to download Dr Bernie's VB/Excel Workshop Sheets
   

• Click HERE to download Dr Bernie's Tutorial on Performance Management & Capacity Planning
   

• Performance Considerations for Web Services - zJournal, Dec. 2003 - it's coming, so we'd better get on the bus rather than stand in front of it!  Building distributed Web applications with Web Services require common sense ... and an understanding of what the overhead issues are behind Web Services.
   

• How To Create A Web Service with Microsoft .NET - Proceedings, Dallas TX., CMG2003, Dec., 2003 - All you need to get started to code a simple Web Service using Microsoft's .NET development environment.  Contains references for VB, C++, C#, Java and for legacy applications like DB2

  • Handout for How to Create a Web Service with Microsoft .NET - a 2-up, black and white .PDF
     

• An Introduction to Web Services for Enterprise Computing - Proceedings, Reno, NV., CMG2002, Dec 2002 - Get immersed in distributed computing via the Web!  This paper highlights the interesting features of Web Services -based applications, and discusses some preliminary performance and design issues that need to be considered.
   

• Software That Can Think and Do (.PDF), Proceedings, CMG2001, Anaheim, CA., Dec. 2001 - A thought provoking look at automation - not just about what it can do, but what it is doing right now!
   

• Predictive Performance Management (.PPT), Presented at CMG 2000, Orlando, FL., Dec. 2000
   

• Maintaining Sanity in an eBusiness World, Presented at CMG 2000, Orlando, FL., Dec. 2000

  • Powerpoint presentation  (about 1 Mb)

  • Web Presentation (HTML)
     

• NT Benchmarking Update

  • The Paper: Journal of Computer Resource Management, Issue 101, Winter 2001;  also , presented at CMG 2000, Orlando, FL., Dec. 2000 (Late Breaking)

  • NT Benchmarking Update: Presentation Handout (pdf) ~540K
     

• Using Booleanized Data To Discover Better Relationships Between Metrics (81K .pdf) -  How can we find meaningful relationships between measurements? Historically, performance analysts have defined relationships and used standard statistical measures to test relationship validity. We (Susan Imberman, Bob Orchard, and Domanski) first review a technique (previously discussed in 'Discovering Relationships Between Metrics' below) that arranges measurement data so that an analyst can query the data to observe existing relationships. The Booleanization step in the algorithm is analyzed to see how well relationships generated by the automated Booleanization methods of mean, mode, median, and clustering correlate to relationships generated by Boolean thresholds defined by an expert.
  

• NT Benchmarking- View Domanski's paper summarizing current technologies being used to benchmark NT systems

• View the Handout/Presentation (248K .pdf)

• NT Benchmarking- Download a ZIP file containing Domanski's WORD97 paper and the Powerpoint97 presentation
  

• Capacity Planning for Distributed Environments - View a .PDF file containing Domanski's landmark paper addressing what the real capacity planning issues are for Distributed computing environments

• Click HERE for a .ZIP file containg the paper and the presentation

• View the presentation directly on the Web - Note, this should be done if you have a T1 line or greater bandwidth capacity
  

• Sizing the Server(s) But Not Knowing Enough:  Open Systems Performance Modeling - View a .PDF file containing one of the first papers addressing modeling a distributed environment

  • Click HERE for a .ZIP file containing the paper and the presentation

• Discovering Relationships Between Metrics - A .PDF file describing a very cool, unique boolean approach to finding out how measurements from any type of environment are related to each other.   A very serious addition to the world of data mining as well as performance evaluation!
   

• Prof. Domanski's vita (.PDF) - a history of professional activities such as publications, presentations, & awards
   

• PROBE Project - intended to provide researchers with access to data needed to develop a new generation of technologies for managing the availability and performance of information systems