Abstract. Petri nets have been widely used to model and analyze concurrent systems. Their wide-spread use in this domain is, on one hand, facilitated by their simplicity and expres...
Priorities are used to control the execution of systems to meet given requirements for optimal use of resources, e.g., by using scheduling policies. For distributed systems, it is ...
Ananda Basu, Saddek Bensalem, Doron Peled, Joseph ...
Speech is a tantalizing mode of human communication. On one hand, humans understand speech with ease and use speech to express complex ideas, information, and knowledge. On the ot...
Eric W. Brown, Savitha Srinivasan, Anni Coden, Dul...
Abstract. Topology design of enterprise networks is a hard combinatorial optimization problem. It has numerous constraints, several objectives, and a very noisy solution space. Bes...
Reliable multicast protocols can strongly simplify the design of distributed applications. However, it is hard to sustain a high multicast throughput when groups are large and het...