In this short paper we examine the integration of three emerging trends in Information Technology (Utility Computing, Grid Computing, and Web Services) into a new Computing paradig...
Stefan Wesner, Bassem Serhan, Theodosis Dimitrakos...
We consider a single circuit-switched communication link, depicted by a Erlang multi-class loss queue, where a customer may vary its required bandwidth during its service. We obtai...
Vocal systems are a well-established reality. Examples of popular voice-based applications include helpdesk services, reservation systems, and vocal mailboxes. These services, tha...
Abstract Many models for customers impatience in queueing systems have been studied in the past; the source of impatience has always been taken to be either a long wait already exp...
Customer retention is crucial for any company relying on a regular client base. One way to approach this problem is to analyse actual user behaviour and take proper actions based o...