Performance evaluation of user modeling servers under real-world workload conditions

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2702, Issue , 2003, Pages 143-153

  Kobsa, Alfred ^a   Fink, Josef ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; ONLINE SEARCHING; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

KNOWLEDGE BASE; PAGE REQUEST RATE; REAL-WORLD WORKLOAD; USER MODELING SERVERS; APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION OF USER MODELS; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; LARGE SCALE TESTS; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENT; PROCESSING TIME; RUNTIME BEHAVIORS;

SERVERS; WEBSITES;

EID: 8344250104     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44963-9_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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