EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper we experimentally investigate if optimal retry times can be determined based on models that assume independence of successive tries. We do this using data obtained fo...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Benchmarking as a method of assessing software performance is known to suffer from random fluctuations that distort the observed performance. In this paper, we focus on the fluctua...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
PEPA has recently been extended with functional rates [1][2]. These functions allow the specification of indirect interaction between components in such a way that the rate of an a...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper shows how to construct a Markovian arrival process of second order from information on the marginal distribution and on its autocorrelation function. More precisely, clo...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. As Web service-based system integration recently became the mainstream approach to create composite services, the dependability of such systems becomes more and more cruc...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
We propose new techniques to simplify the computation of the cycle times and the absorption times for a large class of PEPA models. These techniques allow us to simplify the model ...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Recently, there is an explosive development of fluid approaches to computer and distributed systems. These approaches are inherently stochastic and generate continuous st...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper, we introduce FPS, a mechanism to define performance measures for stochastic process algebra models. FPS is a functional performance specification language which desc...
ECOWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Loose coupling is often cited as a defining characteristic of service-oriented architectures. Interactions between services take place via messages in an asynchronous environment ...
ECOWS
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper, we present an approach to hybrid semantic web service matching based on both logic programming, and syntactic similarity measurement. The implemented matchmaker, ca...