A methodology for workload characterization of E-commerce sites

Subscribe (Full Service)


	Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide

	Feedback

A methodology for workload characterization of E-commerce sites

Full text

Pdf (304 KB)

Source

Electronic Commerce archive
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce table of contents

Denver, Colorado, United States

Pages: 119 - 128

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-176-3

Authors

Daniel A. Menascé	Dept. of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Virgilio A. F. Almeida	Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 30161, Brazil
Rodrigo Fonseca	Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 30161, Brazil
Marco A. Mendes	Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 30161, Brazil

Sponsor

SIGEcom: ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

Bibliometrics

Downloads (6 Weeks): 20, Downloads (12 Months): 120, Citation Count: 42

Additional Information:

references cited by index terms collaborative colleagues

Tools and Actions:	Request Permissions Review this Article Save this Article to a Binder Display Formats: BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref

DOI Bookmark:	Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/336992.337024 What is a DOI?

REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

	1	B. Everitt, Cluster Analysis, Halsted Press, New York, 1980
	2	Martin F. Arlitt , Carey L. Williamson, Web server workload characterization: the search for invariants, Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, p.126-137, May 23-26, 1996, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
	3	Virgílio A.F. Almeida , Wagner Meira, Jr. , Victor F. Ribeiro , Nivio Ziviani, Efficiency analysis of brokers in the electronic marketplace, Proceeding of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web, p.1079-1090, May 1999, Toronto, Canada
	4	M. Calzarossa and G. Serazzi, Workload Characterization: A Survey, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 81, No. 8, August 1993.
	5	Paul Barford , Mark Crovella, Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation, Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, p.151-160, June 22-26, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
	6	L. Cherkasova and P. Phaal, Session Based Admission Control: A Mechanism for Improving the Performance of an Overloaded Web Server, HPL-98-119, HP Labs Technical Reports, 1998.
	7	D. Ferrari, G. Serazzi, and A. Zeigner, Measurement and Tuning of Computer Systems, Upper Saddle River, Prentice Real, 1983.
	8	GVU's WWW User Surveys, http:////www, gvu. gat ech. ed u//user_surveys//
	9	D. Krishnamurthy and J. Rolia, Predicting the Performance of an E-Commerce Server: Those Mean Percentiles, in Prec. First Workshop on Internet Server Performance, ACM SIGMETRICS 98, June 1998.
	10	M. H. MacDougall, Simulating computer systems: techniques and tools, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987
	11	Menasc~, D. A., V. A. F. Almeida, R. Fonseca, M. A. Mendes, Resource Allocation Policies for E- commerce Servers, in Prec. Second Workshop on Internet Server Performance, held in conjunction with ACM Sigmetrics'99, Atlanta, GA, May 1, 1999.
	12	Daniel A. Menascé , Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Capacity planning for Web performance: metrics, models, and methods, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998
	13	Daniel A. Menascé , Virgílio A. F. Almeida , Larry W. Dowdy, Capacity planning and performance modeling: from mainframes to client-server systems, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1994
	14	Pitkow, J. and P. Pirolli, Mining Longest Repeating Subsequences to Predict World Wide Web Surfing, Prec. 2nd. Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Boulder, CO, October 1999.
	15	Nielsen, J., http:////www, useit, corn//alert box//990207, ht ml
	16	G. Winfield Treese , Lawrence C. Stewart, Designing systems for Internet commerce, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1998
	17	Carl Shapiro , Hal R. Varian, Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1998
	18	Osmar R. Zaïane , Man Xin , Jiawei Han, Discovering Web Access Patterns and Trends by Applying OLAP and Data Mining Technology on Web Logs, Proceedings of the Advances in Digital Libraries Conference, p.19, April 22-24, 1998

CITED BY 42

	Zhen Liu , Mark S. Squillante , Joel L. Wolf, On maximizing service-level-agreement profits, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce, p.213-223, October 14-17, 2001, Tampa, Florida, USA
	Daniel A. Menascé , Daniel Barbará , Ronald Dodge, Preserving QoS of e-commerce sites through self-tuning: a performance model approach, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce, p.224-234, October 14-17, 2001, Tampa, Florida, USA
	Characterizing the scalability of a large web-based shopping system, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), v.1 n.1, p.44-69, Aug. 2001
	Bruno Gusmão Rocha , Virgílio A. F. Almeida , Lucila Ishitani , Wagner Meira, Jr., Disclosing users' data in an environment that preserves privacy, Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, p.71-80, November 21-21, 2002, Washington, DC
	Ludmila Cherkasova , Peter Phaal, Session-Based Admission Control: A Mechanism for Peak Load Management of Commercial Web Sites, IEEE Transactions on Computers, v.51 n.6, p.669-685, June 2002
	Cathy H. Xia , Zhen Liu , Mark S. Squillante , Li Zhang , Naceur Malouch, Traffic modeling and performance analysis of commercial web sites, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, v.30 n.3, December 2002
	Daniel A. Menascé, Load Testing of Web Sites, IEEE Internet Computing, v.6 n.4, p.70-74, July 2002
	Qing Wang , Dwight J. Makaroff , H. Keith Edwards, Characterizing customer groups for an e-commerce website, Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic commerce, May 17-20, 2004, New York, NY, USA
	Qing Wang , Dwight Makaroff , H. Keith Edwards , Ryan Thompson, Workload characterization for an E-commerce web site, Proceedings of the 2003 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research, p.313-327, October 06-09, 2003, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	Daniel Menascé , Virgílio Almeida , Rudolf Riedi , Flávia Ribeiro , Rodrigo Fonseca , Wagner Meira, Jr., In search of invariants for e-business workloads, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce, p.56-65, October 17-20, 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
	Daniel A. Menascé, Workload Characterization, IEEE Internet Computing, v.7 n.5, p.89-92, September 2003
	D. A. Menascé , V. A. F. Almeida , R. Riedi , F. Ribeiro , R. Fonseca , W. Meira, Jr., A hierarchical and multiscale approach to analyze E-business workloads, Performance Evaluation, v.54 n.1, p.33-57, 1 September 2003
	Alberto Avritzer , Joe Kondek , Danielle Liu , Elaine J. Weyuker, Software performance testing based on workload characterization, Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance, July 24-26, 2002, Rome, Italy
	Daniel A. Menascé , Hassan Gomaa, A Method for Design and Performance Modeling of Client/Server Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.26 n.11, p.1066-1085, November 2000
	Daniel F. García , Javier García, TPC-W E-Commerce Benchmark Evaluation, Computer, v.36 n.2, p.42-48, February 2003
	Daniel A. Menascé, A Reference Model for Designing an E-Commerce Curriculum, IEEE Concurrency, v.8 n.1, p.82-85, January 2000
	Cathy H. Xia , Zhen Liu , Mark S. Squillante , Li Zhang , Naceur Malouch, Web traffic modeling at finer time scales and performance implications, Performance Evaluation, v.61 n.2-3, p.181-201, July 2005
	Gheorghita Ghinea , Marios C. Angelides, A User Perspective of Quality of Service in m-Commerce, Multimedia Tools and Applications, v.22 n.2, p.187-206, February 2004
	Jayanthkumar Kannan , Jaeyeon Jung , Vern Paxson , Can Emre Koksal, Semi-automated discovery of application session structure, Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM on Internet measurement, October 25-27, 2006, Rio de Janeriro, Brazil
	Mahnaz Shams , Diwakar Krishnamurthy , Behrouz Far, A model-based approach for testing the performance of web applications, Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software quality assurance, November 06-06, 2006, Portland, Oregon
	Baoning Niu , Patrick Martin , Wendy Powley , Randy Horman , Paul Bird, Workload adaptation in autonomic DBMSs, Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research, October 16-19, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
	Toan Huynh , James Miller, Empirical observations on the session timeout threshold, Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, v.45 n.5, p.513-528, September, 2009
	Vasudeva Akula , Daniel A. Menascé, Two-level workload characterization of online auctions, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, v.6 n.2, p.192-208, Summer 2007
	Alexander Totok , Vijay Karamcheti, Modeling of concurrent web sessions with bounded inconsistency in shared data, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, v.67 n.7, p.830-847, July, 2007
	Christopher Stewart , Terence Kelly , Alex Zhang, Exploiting nonstationarity for performance prediction, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, v.41 n.3, June 2007
	Daniel A. Menascé , Vasudeva Akula, Improving the Performance of Online Auctions Through Server-side Activity-based Caching, World Wide Web, v.10 n.2, p.181-204, June 2007
	Katerina Goševa-Popstojanova , Ajay Deep Singh , Sunil Mazimdar , Fengbin Li, Empirical Characterization of Session---Based Workload and Reliability for Web Servers, Empirical Software Engineering, v.11 n.1, p.71-117, March 2006
	Bettina Berendt, Using Site Semantics to Analyze, Visualize, and Support Navigation, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, v.6 n.1, p.37-59, January 2002
	Christos Bouras , Agisilaos Konidaris , Dionysios Kostoulas, Predictive Prefetching on the Web and Its Potential Impact in the Wide Area, World Wide Web, v.7 n.2, p.143-179, June 2004
	Xiaobo Zhou , Jianbin Wei , Cheng-Zhong Xu, Resource Allocation for Session-Based Two-Dimensional Service Differentiation on e-Commerce Servers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v.17 n.8, p.838-850, August 2006
	Diwakar Krishnamurthy , Jerome A. Rolia , Shikharesh Majumdar, A Synthetic Workload Generation Technique for Stress Testing Session-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.32 n.11, p.868-882, November 2006
	Ahmed E. Hassan , Daryl J. Martin , Parminder Flora , Paul Mansfield , Dave Dietz, An Industrial Case Study of Customizing Operational Profiles Using Log Compression, Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering, May 10-18, 2008, Leipzig, Germany
	Samuel Kounev, Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Distributed Component-Based Systems Using Queueing Petri Nets, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.32 n.7, p.486-502, July 2006
	Y. C. Tay , Dinh Nguyen Tran , Eric Yi Liu , Wei Tsang Ooi , Robert Morris, Equilibrium analysis through separation of user and network behavior, Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, v.52 n.18, p.3405-3420, December, 2008
	Marcelo Maia , Jussara Almeida , Virgílio Almeida, Identifying user behavior in online social networks, Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Social network systems, p.1-6, April 01-01, 2008, Glasgow, Scotland
	D. R. W. Holton , I. Nafea , M. Younas , I. Awan, A class-based scheme for E-commerce web servers: Formal specification and performance evaluation, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, v.32 n.2, p.455-460, March, 2009
	Chuan Yue , Haining Wang, Profit-aware overload protection in E-commerce Web sites, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, v.32 n.2, p.347-356, March, 2009
	Nicolas Poggi , Toni Moreno , Josep Lluis Berral , Ricard Gavaldí , Jordi Torres, Self-adaptive utility-based web session management, Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, v.53 n.10, p.1712-1721, July, 2009
	Adriano Pereira , Leonardo Rocha , Fernando Mourão , Paulo Góes , Wagner Meira, Jr., Reactivity based model to study online auctions dynamics, Information Technology and Management, v.10 n.1, p.21-37, March 2009
	Yussuf Abu Shaaban , Jane Hillston, Cost-based admission control for Internet Commerce QoS enhancement, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, v.8 n.3, p.142-159, May, 2009
	Toan Huynh , James Miller, Another viewpoint on "evaluating web software reliability based on workload and failure data extracted from server logs", Empirical Software Engineering, v.14 n.4, p.371-396, August 2009
	Naiqiao Du , Xiaojun Ye , Jianmin Wang, Towards workflow-driven database system workload modeling, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Testing Database Systems, June 29-29, 2009, Providence, Rhode Island