In a dynamic environment, where a process can migrate from one host to another host, communication state transfer is a key issue of process coordination. This paper presents a set of data communication and process migration protocols to support communication state transfer in a dynamic, distributed parallel environment. The protocols preserve semantics of point-to-point communication; they guar...

Over the recent years, a great deal of effort has been devoted towards the development of analytical models for wormhole-routed networks. However, most of these models employ routers with negligible flit buffers. As a consequence, they do not adequately capture the performance behaviour of actual routers, which are often equipped with extended buffers which can hold more than one message flit. ...

In today's business environment in which coordination and adaptation with constant changes are the only ways of survival, real-time monitoring of activities and making the decisions accordingly are necessary. Since performance measurement cannot be managed independent of business processes, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) systems should monitor performance metrics based on business processes...

The design of most systems-on-a-chip (SoC) architectures rely on simulation as a means for performance estimation. Such designs usually start with a parameterizable template architecture, and the design space exploration is restricted to identifying the suitable parameters for all the architectural components. However, in the case of heterogeneous SoC architectures such as network processors th...

in this paper a network comprising alternative branching nodes with probabilistic outcomes is considered. in other words, network nodes are probabilistic with exclusive-or receiver and exclusive-or emitter. first, an analytical approach is proposed to simplify the structure of network. then, it is assumed that the duration of activities is positive trapezoidal fuzzy number (tfn). this paper com...

By generating the specifics of a network structure only when needed (on-the-fly), we derive a simple stochastic process that exactly models the time evolution of susceptible-infectious dynamics on finite-size networks. The small number of dynamical variables of this birth-death Markov process greatly simplifies analytical calculations. We show how a dual analytical description, treating large s...

The objective of this paper is to provide a metric that could be used to define success in a collaborative network. The metric shows three kinds of measurements that might influence the success of collaborative networks. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge by developing a methodology for measuring partners’ contribution, involvement and outcome in the collaborative network as a syst...

One of the key limitations about research involving big data is the lack of a sound methodological process that drives the conceptual and analytical questions posed to the data. In this study, we adapt the popular CRISP-DM process to analyze large volumes of unstructured data to generate analytical insights. We add specificity to the CRISP-DM methodology. Specifically, we propose “Cross Industr...