The use of caches poses a difficult tradeoff for architects of real-time systems. While caches provide significant performance advantages, they have also been viewed as inherently...
Robert D. Arnold, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley,...
Abstract. We apply the PEPA nets modelling language to modelling a peer-topeer medical informatics application, the FieldCare PDA-based medical records system developed by SINTEF T...
Stephen Gilmore, Valentin Haenel, Jane Hillston, L...
— The Internet provides no information on the fate of transmitted packets, and end systems cannot determine who is responsible for dropping or delaying their traffic. As a resul...
Katerina J. Argyraki, Petros Maniatis, O. Irzak, S...
Multiple studies in the information systems (IS) literature recognize that information technology (IT) investments may not yield immediate returns. Nevertheless, there has been a ...
Large systems of agents deployed in a real-world environment face threats to their problem solving performance that are independent of the complexity of the problem or the charact...