A natural trend in most of the engineering disciplines is the construction of systems from components. This has the potential to reduce costs and increase reliability, provided th...
The Logistics Composite Model (LCOM) is a stochastic, discrete-event simulation that relies on probabilities and random number generators to model scenarios in a maintenance unit ...
The proliferation of smart spaces and emergence of new standards, such as Web Services, have paved the way for a new breed of software systems. Often the complete functional and Qo...
Large-scale scientific computing applications frequently make use of closely-coupled distributed parallel components. The performance of such scientific applications is therefore ...
Lei Zhao, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, Gr...
In the setting of secure multiparty computation, a set of parties wish to to jointly compute some function of their input (i.e., they wish to securely carry out some distributed t...