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EPEW
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
Benchmarking as a method of assessing software performance is known to suffer from random fluctuations that distort the observed performance. In this paper, we focus on the fluctua...
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EPEW
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
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...
127
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EPEW
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper shows how to construct a Markovian arrival process of second order from information on the marginal distribution and on its autocorrelation function. More precisely, clo...
134
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EPEW
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. As Web service-based system integration recently became the mainstream approach to create composite services, the dependability of such systems becomes more and more cruc...
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EPEW
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
We propose new techniques to simplify the computation of the cycle times and the absorption times for a large class of PEPA models. These techniques allow us to simplify the model ...