The queueing Petri net (QPN) paradigm provides a number of benefits over conventional modeling paradigms such as queueing networks and generalized stochastic Petri nets. Using qu...
In this paper, we describe an accurate metric (perimeter-degree) for measuring interconnection complexity and effective use of it for controlling congestion in a multilevel framew...
Navaratnasothie Selvakkumaran, Phiroze N. Parakh, ...
A wealth of information is available on the Web. But often, such data are hidden behind form interfaces which allow only a restrictive set of queries over the underlying databases...
Web forums have become an important data resource for many web applications, but extracting structured data from unstructured web forum pages is still a challenging task due to bo...
Jiang-Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Yida Wang, Jun Zhu, Lei ...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...