This paper presents a process modeling language known as the GridPML for the composition of Grid Services. The GridPML is an XML-based language that supports basic control flow co...
Hua Ma, Susan Darling Urban, Yang Xiao, Suzanne W....
Many web-based systems have a tiered application architecture, in which a request needs to transverse all the tiers before finishing its processing. One of the most important QoS...
Queueing models are routinely used to analyze the performance of software systems. However, contrary to common assumptions, the time that a software server takes to complete jobs ...
Software systems are known to suffer from outages due to transient errors. Recently, the phenomenon of “software aging”, one in which the state of the software system degrades...
Kishor S. Trivedi, Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, Kate...
Abstract. Rats and other whiskered mammals are capable of making sophisticated sensory discriminations using tactile signals from their facial whiskers (vibrissae). As part of a pr...
Mathew H. Evans, Charles W. Fox, Martin J. Pearson...