Queueing Networks and Markov Chains is an up-to-date, application-driven guide to computer performance analysis. It is the only book currently available that combines theory and applications of computer performance evaluation with queueing networks and Markov chains, and offers an abundance of performance-evaluation algorithms, applications, and case studies. Timely and comprehensive, Queueing Networks and Markov Chains is essential for practitioners and researchers working in this rapidly evolving field, as well as for graduate students in computer science departments.