Hypermedia systems (whether web sites or not) should support multilevel policiesm, offering different views and manipulation abilities of the same information to users with differ...
Abstract Many models for customers impatience in queueing systems have been studied in the past; the source of impatience has always been taken to be either a long wait already exp...
—Load balancing is a common approach for task assignment in distributed architectures. In this paper, we show that the degree of inefficiency in load balancing designs is highly...
— This paper presents an architecture and algorithms for optimizing the performance of web services. For a given service, session-based admission control is combined with stage-w...
In this paper we analytically derive the sojourn time of a user accessing an online IPTV recording service. Basically, the system consists of a server (or server farm) and the band...