: Today, electronic cross-company collaboration is about to gain significant momentum, but still shows weaknesses with respect to productivity, flexibility and quality: A lack of s...
Web Service Technology has been developing rapidly as it provides a flexible application-to-application interaction mechanism. Several ongoing research efforts focus on various as...
This paper analyzes a single server queueing system in which service is alternated between two queues and the server requires a (finite) switchover time to switch from one queue ...
Abstract—When an emergency happens, public communication networks, including cellular networks, public switched telecommunication networks, and the Internet can be utilized to su...
: The reliability of a communications network is often evaluated without taking into account the economic consequence of failures. Here a new approach is proposed to assess the eco...