Modelling complex concurrent systems is often difficult and error-prone, in particular when new concepts coming from advanced practical applications are considered. These new appl...
AMOS (Active Mediators Object System) is an architecture to model, locate, search, combine, update, and monitor data in information systems with many work stations connected using...
The M/G/1 queue is a classical model used to represent a large number of real-life computer and networking applications. In this note, we show that, for coefficients of variation o...
This paper argues that simply applying a multipletree scheme does not provide sufficient fairness for applications in an Internet-scale distributed system, in terms of performance...
Response time is a key factor of any e-Commerce application, and a set of solutions have been proposed to provide low response time despite network congestions or failures. Being ...