@conference {Vasiliadis2007,
	title = {Performance Analysis of dual priority single-buffered blocking Multistage Interconnection Networks},
	booktitle = {3rd International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2007},
	year = {2007},
	month = {6},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {In this paper a novel architecture of dual priority single-buffered blocking Multistage Interconnection Networks (MINs) is presented. We analyzed their performance in the uniform traffic condition under various loads using simulations. We compared the dual priority architecture against a single priority MIN, by gathering metrics for the two most important network performance factors, namely packet throughput and the mean time a packet needs to traverse the network. We demonstrated the gain of the high priority packets against the low priority packets under different configuration schemas. In this paper we focus on studying the influence of the priority bit in the header field of transmitted packets on the performance of high and low priority traffic of a MIN. Performance prediction before actual network implementation and understanding the impact of parameter settings in a MIN setup are valuable assets for network designers for minimizing overall deployment costs and delivering efficient networks. Β{\textcopyright} 2007 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Computer architecture, Interconnection networks, International conferences, Low priority (LP), Metrics (CO), Multistage interconnection networks Multistage interconnection netowrk (MIN), Network architecture, Network designers, Network performances, Novel architecture, Packet throughput, Parameter estimation, Parameter settings, Performance analyses, Performance predictions, Schemas, Systems engineering, telecommunication, Telecommunication networks, Uniform traffic},
	doi = {10.1109/ICNS.2007.92},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-47049115567\&partnerID=40\&md5=148ac10a4b9facdaf1066911f87f5bb5},
	author = {D.C. Vasiliadis and G.E. Rizos and Costas Vassilakis}
}
@conference {Vassilakis20071564,
	title = {Web service execution streamlining},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - ICSSSM{\textquoteright}06: 2006 International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2007},
	note = {cited By (since 1996) 0},
	month = {10},
	pages = {1564-1569},
	abstract = {Web services are functional, independent components that can be called over the web to perform a task. Besides being used individually to deliver some well-specified functionality, web services may be used as building blocks that can be combined to implement a more complex function. In such compositions, typically some web services produce results that are used as input for web services that will be subsequently invoked. In the execution schemes currently employed, web services producing intermediate results deliver them to some "coordinating entity", which arranges the forwarding of these intermediate results to web services that require them as input. In this paper we present an execution scheme that employs direct communication between producers and consumers of intermediate results. Besides performance improvement stemming from reduction of network communication, this scheme permits consumer web services to employ simpler authenticity and integrity verification algorithms on incoming parameters. when the producer web service is considered trustworthy. Β{\textcopyright}2006 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Algorithms, Function evaluation, Optimization, Parameter estimation, Streamlining, Web service execution, Web service synthesis, Web services},
	doi = {10.1109/ICSSSM.2006.320769},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4114724/},
	author = {Costas Vassilakis and Giorgos Lepouras and Akrivi Katifori}
}
