Published: 2000-12-18

Editorial

Do Functional Languages have a Real Future in Scientific Programming?

Dorothy Bollman

Introduction to the Special Issue

Design, Performance and Scalability of the Distributed Enterprise Systems

Janusz S. Kowalik

Special Issue Papers

Facilitating Analysis and Optimization of Large-Scale Enterprise Systems

Vadim Kotov

Capacity Planning for and Performance Analysis of Large Distributed Transaction Systems

James Aries, Marc Brittan, Eric Dillon, Alan Korncoff, Janusz S. Kowalik, John Lixvar

Performance, Optimization, & Complexity in the Design of Large Scale Distributed Systems

Marc Brittan, Janusz S. Kowalik

Performance and Scalability of Distributed Software Architectures: An SPE Approach

Connie U. Smith, Lloyd G. Williams

Estimating Server Capacities for Enterprise Computing Architectures

George S. Nezlek, Hemant K. Jain, Derek L. Nazareth

What-If Scenario Explorer for Performance and Scalability Simulations

Mikio Nagasawa, Daisuke Nishioka, Tsuneyuki Imaki, Satoru Watanabe, Yoshio Suzuki, Fabian Sievers

Book Reviews

Parallel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

Andrzej Stachurski

Parallel Computing in Optimization

Andrzej Stachurski

Concurrency State Models and Java Programs

William F. Gilreath

Miscellaneous

Referees for Volume 3

Marcin Paprzycki