Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Roman...
The idea of a combined reference model- and view-based specification approach has been proposed recently in the software engineering community. In this paper we present a specifica...
Gregor Engels, Reiko Heckel, Gabriele Taentzer, Ha...
Abstract--This paper proposes an analytical model to estimate the cost of running an affinity-based thread schedule on multicore systems. The model consists of three submodels to e...
Abstract: Nowadays, in the markets of broadband access services, traditional contracts are of "static" type. Customers buy the right to use a specific amount of resources...
Sergios Soursos, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. W...
In a reputation-based trust management system an entity’s behaviour determines its reputation which in turn affects other entities interaction with it. We present a mathematical...