Modeling the Internet delay structure is an important issue in designing large-scale distributed systems. However, linear models fail to characterize Triangle Inequality Violation...
This paper is devoted to thoroughly investigating how to bootstrap the ROC curve, a widely used visual tool for evaluating the accuracy of test/scoring statistics in the bipartite...
In a normative society there are two main problems: defining norms and enforcing them. Enforcement becomes a complex issue as societies become more decentralized and open. We propo...
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, W. Marc...
This study introduces a new analytic queuing model, the N-Burst/G/1 model with heavy-tailed service-time distribution, which captures many of the issues that affect Web servers as...
This paper explores the issues related to developing a transparent Quality of Service (QoS) evaluation for wireless services and distributed applications. The objective of the pap...