When modelling complex systems one can not include all the causal factors, but one has to settle for partial models. This is alright if the factors left out are either so constant...
—Packet classification is a function increasingly used in a number of networking appliances and applications. Typically, sists of a set of abstract classifications, and a set o...
In a distributed system or communication network tasks may need to be executed on more than one processor. For time-critical tasks, the timing constraints are typically given as e...
Military operations planning involves concurrent actions, resource assignment, and conflicting costs. Individual tasks sometimes fail with a known probability, promoting a decisio...
In spite of many standards efforts, Web services with similar or compatible functionalities often have heterogeneous semantics. One reason is the disparate ontologies used for ser...
Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutierrez, Benit...