Abstract. Quantitative analysis of quality-of-service metrics is an important tool in early evaluation of service provision. This analysis depends on being able to estimate the ave...
The concept of multimedia metacomputing involves the formation of a large scale loosely coupled multiprocessing environment capable of performing complex transformations on media ...
Modelling and analysing distributed and mobile software systems is a challenging task. PEPA nets—coloured stochastic Petri nets—are a recently introduced modelling formalism w...
Service-based systems can be modeled as stand-alone services coordinated by external connectors. Reo is a channelbased coordination language with well-defined semantics that enabl...
Natallia Kokash, Christian Krause, Erik P. de Vink
Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...