This article considers importance sampling as a tool for rare-event simulation. The focus is on estimating the probability of overflow in the downstr...

The field of game theory has proved to be of great importance in modeling interactions between self-interested parties in a variety of settings. Trad...

Computer networks often display nonlinear behavior when examined over a wide range of operating conditions. There are few strategies available for mo...

We present a numerical inversionmethod for generating random variates from continuous distributions when only the density function is given. The algo...

Scheduling and resource management play an important role in building complex distributed systems, such as grids. In this article we study the impact...