Replication on multiple nodes is an effective way to improve the availability in the P2P or grid environment. It is difficult to determine how many replicas can fulfill the user r...
The current situation in the Internet service provider market shows that Internet service providers (ISPs) are still struggling to find sustainable business models. The challenge ...
Most of the existing work on modeling variable bit rate (VBR) video sources does not either explicitly take into account groupof-pictures (GOP) or assumes a fixed GOP structure. R...
Defining dependency models is sometimes an easier, more intuitive way for ontology representation than defining reactive rectly, as it provides a higher level of abstraction. We w...
— This paper presents a new model for so-called water hammer equations based on a collocation method. This model is shown to fairly represent possible leak effects in a pipeline ...