In many real applications, for example those with frequent and irregular communication patterns or those using large messages, network contention and contention for message proces...
Abstract--The paper proposes an approach to content dissemination that exploits the structural properties of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document object model in order to p...
Pervasive computing applications allow users to access information from anywhere while traveling and using variety of devices. Heterogeneity and limitation of resources involved i...
This paper proposes a model for short-term content adaptation whose aim is to satisfy the contingent needs of users by adjusting the information a web-application provides on the ...
Marco Benini, Alberto Trombetta, Michela Acquaviva
Being able to model contention for software resources (e.g., a critical section or database lock) is paramount to building performance models that capture all aspects of the delay...