The document provides an agenda for a two-day international workshop honoring Prof. Onno J. Boxma. Day 1 will be held at the University of Haifa and includes 4 sessions with talks on various queueing and stochastic systems topics. Day 2 will be held at the Technion and also includes 4 sessions with additional talks on related subjects. The workshop concludes with a keynote speech by Prof. Onno Boxma on the topic of "Polling".

1. International Workshop on Queueing and Stochastic Systems
in Honor of Prof. Onno J. Boxma
Organized by David Perry and Nahum Shimkin
PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
DAY 1: Wednesday, June 3
University of Haifa campus, IBM Building
08:30-09:00 Gathering and Coffee
09:00-09:15 Greetings: Workshop chairs, and Uri Yechiali
Session 1 Chair: Moshe Haviv, The Hebrew University
09:15-09:45 Uri Yechiali, Tel-Aviv University
"TCP, Polling and Bulk-Service M/G/1 Queue"
09:45-10:15 Ivo Adan, TU Eindhoven and EURANDOM
"Performance evaluation of compact picking systems"
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
Session 2 Chair: Offer Kella, The Hebrew University
10:45-11:15 Gideon Weiss, University of Haifa
"Infinite virtual queues: a new paradigm for balanced heavy traffic,
and for finite horizon control"
11:15-11:45 Jacques Resing, TU Eindhoven and EURANDOM
"Alternating risk reserve processes"
11:45-12:15 Jan van der Wal, TU Eindhoven and EURANDOM
"On a queueing decision problem in railway traffic"
12:15-14:00 Lunch break
Session 3 Chair: Zinoviy Landsman, University of Haifa
14:00-14:30 Israel David, Ben-Gurion University
"A stylistic queueing-like model for the allocation of organs on the public
list"
14:30-15:00 Rob van der Mei, CWI
"On Queueing Networks with Shared Resources"
15:00-15:30 Johan van Leeuwaarden, TU Eindhoven and EURANDOM
"Spectral gap of a many-server queue in the Halfin-Whitt regime"
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Session 4 Chair: Andreas Lopker, TU Eindhoven and EURANDOM
16:00-16:30 Bert Zwart, CWI and EURANDOM
"Time dependent properties of symmetric queues"
16:30-17:00 Ohad Perry, Columbia University
"Heavy-Traffic Limits Via an Averaging Principle for Many-Server
Systems; Convergence and Stability Analysis"
17:00-17:30 Refael Hassin, Tel-Aviv University
"Strategic Behavior and Social Optimization in Markovian
Vacation Queues"
17:30-18:00 Bernardo D'Auria, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
"Two sided reflection of a Markov Modulated Brownian Motion"

2. DAY 2: Thursday, June 4
Technion, Department of Electrical Engineering, Room 1003
08:30-09:00 Gathering and coffee
9:00-9:15 Greetings:
- Moshe Sidi, Technion VP for Academic Affairs
- Israel Cidon, Dean of Electrical Engineering
Session 1 Chair: Adam Shwartz, Technion
09:15-09:45 Shelley Zacks, Binghamton University
"The Distribution of the Busy Period in an M/G/1 Queue With
Customers Impatience, The Discreet Case."
09:45-10:15 Maria Vlasiou, TU Eindhoven and EURANDOM
"A Levy input model with additional state-dependent services"
10:15-10:45 Rami Atar, Technion
"The nondegenerate slowdown diffusion regime: Limit results and
control formulations"
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
Session 2 Chair: Avishai Mandelbaum, Technion
11:15-11:45 Hanoch Levy, Tel Aviv University
"Evaluating the Vulnerability of Network Mechanisms to
Sophisticated DDoS Attacks"
11:45-12:15 Iddo Eliazar, Holon Institute of Technology
"Statistical Resilience of Random Populations to Random
Perturbations"
12:15-14:00 Lunch break
Session 3 Chair: Haya Kaspi, Technion
14:00-14:30 Eitan Altman, INRIA
"Queueing in Space: design of Message Ferry Routes in static
adhoc networks"
14:30-15:00 Sem Borst, CWI and TU Eindhoven
"Layered queueing models for multi-hop random-access
networks"
15:00-15:30 Nahum Shimkin, Technion
"The c-mu/theta scheduling rule for many-sever queues with
abandonment"
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Session 4
16:00-16:10 Forward: Michael Rubinovitch
16:10-17:10 Keynote: Onno Boxma, EURANDOM and TU Eindhoven
"Polling"