Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet
GERAD celebrates this year its 25th anniversary. The Center was created in 1980 by a small group of professors and researchers of HEC Montreal, McGill University and of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. GERAD's activities achieved sufficient scope to j
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GERAD 25th Anniversary Series
Essays and Surveys in Global Optimization Charles Audet, Pierre Hansen, and Gilles Savard, editors Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization David Avis, Alain Hertz, and Odile Marcotte, editors Numerical Methods in Finance Hatem Ben-Ameur and Michele Breton, editors Analysis, Control and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems El-Kebir Boukas and Roland Malhame, editors Column Generation Guy Desaulniers, Jacques Desrosiers, and Marius M. Solomon, editors Statistical Modeling and Analysis for Complex Data Problems Pierre Duchesne and Bruno Remillard, editors Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet Andre Girard, Brunilde Sanso, and Felisa Vazquez-Abad, editors Dynamic Games: Theory and Applications Alain Haurie and Georges Zaccour, editors Logistics Systems: Design and Optimization Andre Langevin and Diane Riopel, editors Energy and Environment Richard Loulou, Jean-Philippe Waaub, and Georges Zaccour, editors
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND PLANNING METHODS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET
Edited by
ANDRE GIRARD GERAD and INRS-Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications
BRUNUJDE SANSO GERAD and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
FELISA VAZQUEZ-AB AD GERAD and Universite de Montreal
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Andre Girard GERAD & INRS-Telecommunications Montreal, Canada
Brunilde Sanso GERAD & Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Montreal, Canada
Felisa Vazquez-Abad GERAD and Universite de Montreal Montreal, Canada
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Foreword
GERAD celebrates this year its 25th anniversary. The Center was created in 1980 by a small group of professors and researchers of HEC Montreal, McGill University and of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. GERAD's activities achieved sufficient scope to justify its conversion in June 1988 into a Joint Research Centre of HEC Montreal, the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and McGill University. In 1996, the Universite du Quebec a Montreal joined these three ins