Ontologies allow researchers, domain experts, and software agents to share a common understanding of the concepts and relationships of a domain. The past few years have seen the p...
Gregory A. Silver, Osama Al-Haj Hassan, John A. Mi...
Worldwide globalization increases the complexity of problem solving and decision-making, whatever the endeavor is. This calls for a more accurate and complete understanding of unde...
We propose a conceptual framework, called the Rugby Model, in which designs, design processes and design tools can be studied. It is an extension of the Y chart and adds two dimen...
This paper studies the M/M/s+M queue, i.e., the M/M/s queue with customer abandonment, also called the Erlang-A model, having independent and identically distributed customer aban...
Any model-based evaluation of the dependability of a system requires validation and verification to justify that its results are meaningful. Modern modeling frameworks enable us ...