Quantitative performance modeling of complex information systems is of immense importance for designing enterprise e-business infrastructures and applications. In this paper, we p...
Abstract There are increasing demands on portable communication devices to run multimedia applications. ISO (an International Organization for Standardization) standard MPEG-4 is a...
Web caching has been proposed as an effective solution to the problems of network traffic and congestion, Web objects access and Web load balancing. This paper presents a model for...
Stroboscope is a programming language designed for the simulation of processes common to construction engineering. These processes are very complex and involve many different type...
In secure group communications, a key server can deliver a "grouporiented" rekey message [22] to a large number of users efficiently using multicast. For reliable delive...