: Advanced business processes are mostly distributed and require highly flexible management capabilities. In such scenarios, process parts often leave their initiator’s direct sp...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
Reinforcement learning models generally assume that a stimulus is presented that allows a learner to unambiguously identify the state of nature, and the reward received is drawn f...
Tobias Larsen, David S. Leslie, Edmund J. Collins,...
We present the KPC-Toolbox, a library of MATLAB scripts for fitting workload traces into Markovian Arrival Processes (MAPs) in an automatic way based on the recently proposed Kro...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...