Undergraduates are usually introduced to synchronization in operating systems through a discussion of classical problems such as reader-writer or producers-consumers. The traditio...
In this paper we consider a multi-server queue with a near general arrival process (represented as an arbitrary state-dependent Coxian distribution), a near general state-dependent...
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of online commercial activity enabled by the World Wide Web. An electronic marketplace (e-market) provides an online method to perf...
Adriano M. Pereira, Arlei Silva, Wagner Meira Jr.,...
Abstract. The security requirements of complex multi-tier web applications have shifted from simple localized needs, such as authentication or authorization, to physically distribu...
Web applications can be classified as hybrids between hypermedia and information systems. They have a relatively simple distributed architecture from the user viewpoint, but a comp...