Required reading:

  1. Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, John Wiley, 1991, ISBN: 0-471-50336-3. Please download the errata.
Other recommended books:
  1. P. Cohen, Empirical Methods for Artifical Inteligence, MIT Press, 1995.
  2. I. Miller, J. Freund, R. Johnson, Probability and Statistics for Engineers, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN: 0-13-014158-5.
  3. David M. Levine, Patricia P. Ramsey, Robert K. Smidt, Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists: Using Microsoft Excel & MINITAB, Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0134888014.
  4. D. A. Menasce, V. Almeida, and L. W. Dowdy, Performance by Design: computer capacity planning by example, Prentice Hall, 2004.
  5. D. A. Menasce and V. Almeida, Capacity Planning for Web Services: metrics, models, and methods, Prentice Hall, 2002.
  6. D. A. Menasce and V. Almeida, Scaling for E-Business: technologies, models, performance, and capacity planning, Prentice Hall, 2000.