Peter George Harrison (born 1951) is an Emeritus Professor of Computing Science at Imperial College London[3] known for the reversed compound agent theorem, which gives conditions for a stochastic network to have a product-form solution.
Peter Harrison | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge Imperial College London |
| Known for | RCAT |
| Awards | Mayhew Prize (1973) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | performance analysis |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
| Thesis | Representative Queueing Network Models of Computer Systems in Terms of Time Delay Probability Distributions (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Meir M. Lehman[1] |
| Doctoral students | Edwige Pitel |
Harrison attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was a Wrangler in Mathematics (1972) and gained a Distinction in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (1973), winning the Mayhew Prize for Applied Mathematics.[4]
After spending two years in industry, Harrison moved to Imperial College, London where he has worked since, obtaining his Ph.D. in Computing Science in 1979 with a thesis titled "Representative queueing network models of computer systems in terms of time delay probability distributions" and lecturing since 1983.[5]
Current research interests include parallel algorithms, performance engineering, queueing theory, stochastic models and stochastic process algebra, particularly the application of RCAT to find product-form solutions.[6]
Harrison has coauthored two books, Functional Programming with Tony Field,[7] and Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures with Naresh Patel[8] and published over 150 papers.[9]
Harrison is an associate editor of The Computer Journal.[10]
Via Saharon Shelah and Dov Gabbay, Harrison has an Erdős number of 3.[11]
References edit
- ^ Peter G. Harrison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Harrison, Peter G. (1986). "An Enhanced Approximation by Pair-Wise Analysis of Servers for Time Delay Distributions in Queueing Networks". IEEE Transactions on Computers. 35 (1 (January)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 54–61. doi:10.1109/TC.1986.1676657. S2CID 41389350.
- ^ "Harrison's Personal Home Page". Imperial College London.
- ^ ""Turning Back Time - What Impact on Performance?" lecturer biography". bcs.org. British Computer Society. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
- ^ Gelenbe, Erol (2000). System performance evaluation: methodologies and applications. CRC Press. p. 330. ISBN 0-8493-2357-6.
- ^ "Peter Harrison biography". doc.ic.ac.uk. Analysis, Engineering, Simulation & Optimization of Performance group at Imperial College.
- ^ Field, Anthony J.; Harrison, Peter G. (1988). Functional programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780201192490.
- ^ Harrison, Peter G.; Patel, Naresh M. (1992). Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780201544190.
- ^ "Professor Peter Harrison's Publications". Imperial College London. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ "Editorial board of The Computer Journal". Oxford Journals. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
- ^ "List of Department of Computing, Imperial College staff by Erdős number".