In recent years the Unified Modeling Language (UML) including its profiles gained increasing acceptance as a specification language for modeling real-time systems. It is crucia...
An analytical framework for modeling the performance of a single TCP session in the presence of random packet loss is presented that is based on a semi-Markov model for the window ...
This paper presents a comparative study of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We focus on EAs where fitness is based on penalization of cons...
A. E. Eiben, Jano I. van Hemert, Elena Marchiori, ...
We investigate the circumstances under which it is possible to discourage free-riding in a peer-to-peer system for resource-sharing by prioritizing resource allocation to peers wi...
Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Walfredo Cirne,...
A hybrid approach that utilizes both statistical techniques and empirical methods seeks to provide more information about the performance of an application. In this paper, we prese...