PEPA has recently been extended with functional rates [1][2]. These functions allow the specification of indirect interaction between components in such a way that the rate of an a...
Recent breakthroughs in communication and software engineering has resulted in significant growth of web-based computing. Web-based techniques have been employed for modeling, sim...
This paper presents an approach for investigating in a predictive way potential disruptive effects of interruptions on task performance in a multitasking environment. The approach...
Philippe A. Palanque, Marco Winckler, Jean-Fran&cc...
Soft computing (SC) emerged as an integrating framework for a number of techniques that could complement one another quite well (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutio...
Branch prediction is an important mechanism in modern microprocessor design. The focus of research in this area has been on designing new branch prediction schemes. In contrast, v...