Abstract. We review the definition of entity types derived by symbolgenerating rules. These types appear frequently in conceptual schemas. However, up to now they have received ver...
Software systems in health care, such as disease and medical-record management, or financial applications, such as customer relationship and portfolio management, have very often...
Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) have proven to be a powerful and enduring graphically-oriented framework for modelling and performance analysis of complex systems. This tutorial focu...
In this paper, a method is presented for the efficient estimation of rare-event (buffer overflow) probabilities in queueing networks using importance sampling. Unlike previously pr...
A general game player is a system that can play previously unknown games given nothing but their rules. A key to success in this endeavour is the ability to automatically gain know...