— This paper describes the so-called Differential Ant-Stigmergy Algorithm (DASA), which is an extension of the Ant-Colony Optimization for a continuous domain. An experimental ev...
Peter Korosec, Jurij Silc, Klemen Oblak, Franc Kos...
Recently there have been considerable interests focusing on the performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, which were proposed for supporting Qu...
While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
Ad-hoc networking is a concept in computer communications. Each node participating in the network acts both as host and a router and must therefore is willing to forward packets f...
Yasser Kamal Hassan, Mohamed Hashim Abd El-Aziz, A...
Embedded systems for closed-loop applications often behave as discrete-time semi-Markov processes (DTSMPs). Performability measures most meaningful to iterative embedded systems, ...