This article introduces the concept of monotonic transactions. A monotonic transaction is a particular case of transactions for which the load arrival pattern is (or can be by rot...
The distribution of fitness values across a set of states sharply influences the dynamics of evolutionary processes and heuristic search in combinatorial optimization. In this p...
The combination of process integration and Operations Research enables an integrated technique assessment and a subsequent process design. The application of Multi Objective Pinch...
Jutta Geldermann, Hannes Schollenberger, Martin Tr...
In this paper, we develop simple models to study the performance of BitTorrent, a second generation peer-to-peer (P2P) application. We first present a simple fluid model and stu...
: Today's industrial sensor networks require strong reliability and guarantees on messages delivery. These needs are even more important in real time applications like control...