A Probabilistic Approach to Symbolic Performance Modeling of Parallel Systems

Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotor: Numerous people have been contributed in several ways to establish the results presented here. I would like take the opportunity to thank them. First of all, I like to thank Dr.ir. Arjan van Gemund for giving me the opportunity to do this research. I am deeply grateful to him for being my goeroe, for his guidance and help during the project, for writing the thesis, and for his feedback and advice considering my research. The existence of a better supervisor is quite unthinkable. It is my pleasure to express my gratitude to Prof. Henk Sips for giving me the opportunity to continue my research in his ST group. Thanks to Paulo Anita for providing the technical support with the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) for my experiments. Furthermore, I would also like to thank Prof. Stamatis Vassiliadis for giving me the opportunity to start my research in CE group. Special thanks to Prof. Gerard Reijns for the interesting discussions and for publishing join papers. Thanks to Bert Meijs for providing the technical support for my computer. Moreover, I would like to thank Dr. Suyono for the discussion in the probabilistic theory. Special thanks to Caswita, Darmawijoyo, Gunarjo, Hartono and all Indonesian students in Delft that I do not mention here. I would also like to thank my ikhwah and their family in Delft: Iskandarsyah, Deden Permana and Zulfebriansyah; in The Hague: Zayd Hikmatullah and Gunaryadi; and in Groningen Elfahmi Yaman for providing spiritual support and doing dakwah activities together. Most of all I would like to thank my wife, Henny Marlina, for her love, patience, understanding , moral encouragement and taking care for our children: Husna, Hilya and Hanif during my research in the Netherlands.