Professor Woodside will present the ideas and some similarities of Layered Queueing Networks to certain classes of timed Petri Nets. It might be a way to introduce the ideas to those that havent heard them, and to start discussion.

Professor Woodside is Director of the Real-Time and Distributed Systems Lab (RADS Lab) in Carleton University, he is also Thrust Leader for the Software thrust of TRIO, the Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario. He is presently Vice-Chairman of the Special Interest Group on Performance Measurement and Modelling (SIGMETRICS) of the ACM.