—Identifying modules, or natural communities, in large complex networks is fundamental in many fields, including social sciences, biological sciences and engineering. Recently s...
Database Management Systems (DBMS) are complex software systems which are used in an increasing number of applications. To obtain the best performance for business relevant applic...
We consider complex scheduling problems that can be captured as optimization under hard and soft constraints. The objective of such an optimization problem is to satisfy as many h...
This paper describes JSIM: the simulation module of the Java Modelling Tools (JMT), an open-source fully-portable Java suite for capacity planning studies. The simulator has been ...
Computer system designers often evaluate future design alternatives with detailed simulators that strive for functional fidelity (to execute relevant workloads) and performance fi...