Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet (Gerad 25th Anniversary)

381 pages. GERAD celebrates this year its 25th anniversary. The Center was created in 19 80 by a small group of professors and researchers of HEC Montreal, McGill Univer sity and of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. GERAD's activities achieved suf ficient scope to justify its conversion in June 1988 into a Joint Research Centr e of HEC Montreal, the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and McGill University. In 1996, the U- versite du Quebec a Montreal joined these three institutions. GERA D has fifty members (professors), more than twenty research associates and post doctoral students and more than two hundreds master and Ph.D. students. GERAD is a multi-university center and a vital forum for the devel- ment of operations r esearch. Its mission is defined around the following four complementarily The or iginal and expert contribution to all research fields in GERAD's area of experti se; The dissemination of research results in the best scientific outlets as well as in the society in general; The training of graduate students and post doctor al researchers; The contribution to the economic community by solving important problems and providing transferable tools.…