In search of invariants for e-business workloads

EC 2000 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 56-65

  Menascé, Daniel ^a   Almeida, Virgílio ^b   Riedi, Rudolf ^c   Ribeiro, Flávia ^b   Fonseca, Rodrigo ^b   Meira, Wagner ^b  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

e commerce; heavy tailed distribution; performance modeling; workload characterization; WWW

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; E- COMMERCES; EBUSINESS; ELECTRONIC AUCTION; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; ONLINE BOOKSTORE; PERFORMANCE MODELING; QUALITY-OF-SERVICE; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84898075458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/352871.352878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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