Integrating user-perceived quality into web server design

HP Laboratories Technical Report

Volumn , Issue 3, 2000, Pages

  Bhatti, Nina ^a   Bouch, Anna ^a,b   Kuchinsky, Allan ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E commerce; Internet; Quality of service; Server design; User perception; Web server design

Indexed keywords

LATENCY; PRIORITY SCHEDULING; SERVER DESIGN; USER PERCEPTION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTEGRATION; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SECURITY OF DATA; SERVERS; TECHNOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84862440625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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