A distributed system simulation modelling approach

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 251-267

  Nikolaidou, M ^a   Anagnostopoulos, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distributed application modelling; Distributed system simulation; Distributed systems; Performance valuation

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIDDLEWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION MODELING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE VALUATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 1642283398     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-190X(03)00050-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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