Market-based resource management is becoming an emerging issue as the utilization of Grid computing is growing rapidly, particularly in the business field. In this paper, we prov...
Grid computing technologies enable large-scale aggregation and sharing of resources via wide-area networks focused on sharing computational, data, and other resources to form gener...
Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) have been proved useful for the quantitative analysis of systems. This paper introduces ArgoSPE, a tool for the performance evaluation of software syst...
—Workload characterisation and generation is becoming an increasingly important area as hardware and application complexities continue to advance. In this paper, we introduce a c...
The paper introduces a new model for shipment date quoting with potential applications in E-commerce. First, a customer sends to the vendor a request for an item advertised at a c...