This paper studies parallel job scheduling in a distributed system. A simulation model is used to address performance issues associated with scheduling. Five policies are used to ...
Abstract. e-Procurement is an Internet-based business process for obtaining materials and services and managing their inflow into the organization. In this paper we develop multia...
Abstract. Today’s software systems have to deal with an increasing diversity and complexity of execution environments. Next generation applications will have to deal with the unk...
Abstract. We present attacks on the anonymity and pseudonymity provided by a “lonely hearts” dating service and by the HushMail encrypted email system. We move on to discuss so...
Abstract—This paper proposes a simple but effective admission control algorithm for integrated services packet networks. The admission control scheme, based on stochastic control...