ÐReal-time middleware services must guarantee predictable performance under specified load and failure conditions, and ensure graceful degradation when these conditions are violat...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
Consider a system (e.g. a computer farm or a call center) operating as a M/M/c queue, where c = 1, or 1 < c < ∞, or c = ∞. The system as a whole suffers disastrous break...
Electric Power Systems (EPS) become more and more critical for our society, since they provide vital services for the human activities. At the same time, obtaining dependable beha...
Francesco Romani, Silvano Chiaradonna, Felicita Di...
Given the pervasive nature of malicious mobile code (viruses, worms, etc.), developing statistical/structural models of code execution is of considerable importance. We investigat...
Geoffrey Mazeroff, Jens Gregor, Michael G. Thomaso...