—The rapid growth of media content distribution on the Internet in the past few years has brought with it commensurate increases in the costs of distributing that content. Can th...
“Smart Things” are commonly understood as wireless ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous, special purpose computing appliances, usually interacting with their environment impli...
The integration of environmental models and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) usually takes two approaches: loose coupling and tight coupling. This paper, however, presents a...
Perturbation analysis deals with the relation ships between small changes in a system's inputs or model and changes in its outputs. Reverse simulation is of particular inte...
This paper investigates profit optimisation by the partitioning of server pools. Different types of web requests are considered in this paper: best-effort requests and multi-class...