Performance evaluation of a distributed application

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 916-927

  Ahituv, N ^a   Elovici, Y ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer performance evaluation; Cost utilization approach; Distributed applications; Distributed systems; Parallel systems; Theory of constraints

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; DISPLAY DEVICES; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035423511     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601164     Document Type: Article

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