BuTools 2: a Rich Toolbox for Markovian Performance Evaluation

BuTools 2 is collection of computational methods that are useful for Markovian and non-Markovian matrix analytic performance analysis. It consists of various packages. There are packages to obtain, analyze, transform and minimize discrete and continuous time phase-type (PH) distributions and Markovian arrival processes (MAP); to fit empirical measurement data and to evaluate the result; to solve many performance measures of various Markovian queueing systems; and to solve block-structured Markov chains. All three major mathematical frameworks are supported: BuTools is released for MATLAB, Mathematica and NumPy/IPython as well, with the same features, with the same call interfaces. Every function is documented, the documentation is supplemented by many examples and the related citations. BuTools uses the state-of-the art algorithms and apart of the basic functionalities it contains several unique, difficult to implement procedures as well.