Abstract. Dynamic fault trees (DFTs) are a versatile and common formalism to model and analyze the reliability of computer-based systems. This paper presents a formal semantics of ...
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
Obtaining performance models, like Markov chains and queueing networks, for systems of significant complexity and magnitude is a difficult task that is usually tackled using human...
With the continuing advances in data storage and communication technology, there has been an explosive growth of music information from different application domains. As an effe...
Bingjun Zhang, Jialie Shen, Qiaoliang Xiang, Ye Wa...
In this note we continue the study of gaps in samples of geometric random variables originated in Hitczenko and Knopfmacher [Gap-free compositions and gap-free samples of geometri...