Today, all computers have some degree of usable parallelism. Modern computers are
explicitly equipped with hardware support for parallelism, such as multiple nodes …

A parallel master–slave model of the recently proposed cooperative micro-particle swarm
optimization approach is introduced. The algorithm is based on the decomposition of the …

Software development projects have become a challenge for both industry and academia
regarding the performance evaluation of teams. Recently, a Stochastic Automata Networks …

Many Markovian stochastic structured modeling formalisms like Petri nets, automata
networks and process algebra represent the infinitesimal generator of the underlying Markov …

Today, we no longer live in an era where cloud computing was addressed only for
enterprise transaction-based applications like e-commerce and those centered on database …

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has become universal due to its simplicity and
effectiveness in solving many problems in various applications with low computational cost …

This paper presents a solution procedure for reliable production lines with service times
distributed according to an exponential distribution, based on a Markovian formulation with a …

Efficient planning of construction operations is deemed necessary to meet project objectives.
Researchers have used simulation optimization to select the optimum amount of equipment …

Measuring productivity in globally distributed projects is crucial to improve team
performance. These measures often display information on whether a given project is …

CoPt alloy clusters are promising candidates for catalysts in fuel-cell applications because of
their enhanced catalytic performances compared with pure Pt clusters. In this article, an …