Ranking configuration parameters in multi-tiered e-commerce sites

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 24-33

  Sopitkamol, Monchai ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SERVERS; CONFIGURABLE PARAMETER; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SYSTEM THROUGHPUT;

EXPERIMENTS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 37849047087     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1052305.1052310     Document Type: Article

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