A modeling technique for the performance analysis of web searching applications

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1339-1356

  Scarpa, Marco ^a   Puliafito, Antonio ^a   Villari, Massimo ^a   Zaia, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication paradigms; Distributed data bases; Mobile agents; Petri nets modeling

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMIZATION; PETRI NETS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION PARADIGMS; DISTRIBUTED DATA BASES; MOBILE AGENTS; PETRI-NETS MODELING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 13844281071     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2004.65     Document Type: Article

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