A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
An integrated management of business processes demands a strictly process-oriented development of the supporting IT. Process-orientation is especially promoted by Service-Oriented...
The success of Skype has inspired a generation of peer-topeer-based solutions for satisfactory real-time multimedia services over the Internet. However, fundamental questions, suc...
We present an analytic technique for modeling load balancing policies on a cluster of servers conditioned on the fact that the service times of arriving tasks are drawn from heavy...
In this paper we demonstrate how tree-like processes can be used to analyze a general class of priority queues with three service classes, creating a new methodology to study prio...