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The Capsule Reviews are intended to provide a short succinct review of each paper in the issue, in order to bring the content to a wider readership. This issue's Capsule Reviews were compiled by Fairouz Kamarreddine. Professor Kamarreddine is an Associate Editor of The Computer Journal and is based in the Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Capsule Reviews are intended to provide a short succinct review of each paper in the issue, in order to bring the content to a wider readership. This issue's Capsule Reviews were compiled by Fairouz Kamareddine. Professor Kamareddine is an Associate Editor of The Computer Journal and is based in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This special issue contains four papers selected from the 26th UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW), which was held during 8–9 July 2010 in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. UKPEW is the leading UK forum for the presentation of work relating to all aspects of performance modelling and the analysis of computer and telecommunication systems. This year's selected papers demonstrate the variety of topics on offer at UKPEW: performance issues in cloud computing, energy-aware routing in packet networks, source location privacy and multi-hop ad hoc networks for wireless networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This special issue includes research papers related to a workshop held at the Royal Society on 21st of September 2010, honouring Erol Gelenbe on his 65th birthday. The workshop brought together some 40 participants including some of Erol's former and current PhD students, colleagues and friends with whom he has interacted over the years, both in Europe and the USA. The papers focus on probability models in computer science, at the core of the field of computer performance engineering, which Erol pioneered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Capsule Reviews are intended to provide a short succinct review of each paper in the issue in order to bring it to a wider readership. The Capsule Reviews were compiled by Fairouz Kamareddine. Professor Kamareddine is an Associate Editor of The Computer Journal and is based in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history of packet switching technology in Great Britain. It suggests that the technology can be attributed to Paul Baran of RAND Corp. who proposed it in the context of a digital communication network for military purpose. It cites the role of Leonard Kleinrock in the development of ARPA through the application of queuing theory with the aim of predicting performance of its design.

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the feasibility studies submitted by six UK cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Milton Keynes). The datasets were collected during the period of February–March 2017 by exploring their Open Data resources, common visions of their smart programmes and the themes of their projects. The aim of this work is to raise awareness and access of the existing data resources, encourage alignment of data collection and curation among projects with compatible objectives in different cities and to identify the gaps in coverage that are hampering achievement of the cities' visions. In this research, we distinguish between stored datasets that are accessible via data hubs, and live data that are only accessible via application programming interfaces in real time. Given that our findings are purely based on stored Open Data, we conclude that the Smart City dream will be only achieved in reality, where those involved in Smart Cities-related projects co-operate and share both experiences and resources in order to maximize progress towards the common goal but to minimize duplication of efforts and repetition of the same mistakes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Capsule Reviews are intended to provide a short succinct review of each paper in the issue in order to bring it to a wider readership. The Capsule Reviews were compiled by Fairouz Kamareddine. Professor Kamareddine is an Associate Editor of The Computer Journal and is based in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LEO was the world's first business computer. It was built by J. Lyons & Co., a catering company, to meet its own needs and led the way for several years with its succession of integrated applications. Developments are placed in the context of the technological constraints of the early years of electronic stored-program computing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]