It is well-known that acting in an individually rational manner, according to the principles of classical game theory, may lead to sub-optimal solutions in a class of problems nam...
Lose sight of the existence of system crosscutting concerns, e.g. safety and quality etc, often causes the system hard to maintain and evolve according to the changing environment...
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a widely used communication protocol. In this paper, a portion of the protocol is chosen for modeling and verification, namely th...
Future digital entertainment services available to home users will share several characteristics: i) they will be deployed and delivered through the Internet, ii) a single media c...
Claudio E. Palazzi, Giovanni Pau, Marco Roccetti, ...
Abstract--Current video-on-demand (VoD) systems can be classified into two categories: 1) true-VoD (TVoD) and 2) near-VoD (NVoD). TVoD systems allocate a dedicated channel for ever...