MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Tuesday, 07-Jan-97 15:18:55 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 1923 Last-Modified: Tuesday, 20-Feb-96 23:54:51 GMT Jeffrey A. Brumfield

Jeffrey A. Brumfield

Senior Lecturer

B.S. in Math and Computer Science (1975), M.A. in Mathematics (1977),
University of Georgia

M.S. in Computer Science (1979), Ph.D. in Computer Science (1982),
Purdue University

Honors and Awards

Areas of Interest

Performance analysis, distributed systems, and operating systems

Summary of Research

I am interested in the role models play in computer science. Designers of computing systems use mathematical models to study the performance of existing and proposed systems. In a queueing network model, each resource in the computer system is represented by a queue of tasks awaiting service. The solution of the model involves the computation of response times, queue lengths, and throughputs.

Selected Recent Publications

J. A. Brumfield, V. Y. Shen, C. Richter, and M. L. Graf, "VERDI: a visual environment for designing distributed systems," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 9, pp. 128-137, 1990.

J. A. Brumfield, J. L. Miller, and H. Chou, "Performance modeling of distributed object-oriented database systems," in 1988 International Symposium on Databases in Parallel and Distributed Systems, Austin, Texas, December 1988.

J. A. Brumfield, "Concurrent programming in Modula-2," in Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, St. Louis, Feb. 1987, SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 191-200.

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