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
- College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 1985 & 1988
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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