The upstream activities of software development projects are often viewed as both the most important, the least understood, and hence the most problematic. This is particularly no...
This paper reports on the phenomenon that may be called "derivative meaning," where the basic semantic conventions for certain graphical representation systems give rise...
Random walk graph and Markov chain based models are used heavily in many data and system analysis domains, including web, bioinformatics, and queuing. These models enable the desc...
Abstract. In this paper we describe a novel concept for reliability analysis of communication architectures in safety-critical systems. This concept has been motivated by applicati...
A collision resolution scheme is essential to the performance of a random-access wireless network. Most schemes employ exponential backoff (EB) to adjust the transmission attempt ...