Provisioning servers in the application tier for E-commerce systems

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Villela, Daniel ^a   Pradhan, Prashant ^b   Rubenstein, Dan ^c,d  

^a CEPEL   (Brazil)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^d Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Eletronic commerce; Server provisioning

Indexed keywords

QUEUEING SYSTEMS; SERVER PROVISIONING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVERS; WEBSITES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33847736302     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1189740.1189747     Document Type: Article

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