Modern enterprise applications have to satisfy increasingly stringent Quality-of-Service
requirements. To ensure that a system meets its performance requirements, the ability to …

This survey is an up-to-date state-of-the-art in Web load balancing mechanisms that
includes all the possible classifications and focuses on the advantages of using load …

Internet traffic tends to show significant growth of demand at certain times of the day, or in
response to special events. The consequence of these traffic peaks is that Web systems that …

Modern enterprise systems often have distributed application architectures composed of
many independent services running in a heterogeneous environment (Papazoglou et al …

The size and complexity of modeling and simulation (M&S) applications continue to grow at
a significant rate. The focus of this panel is to examine the impact that such growth should be …

Nowadays due to exceptional scale and vibrant nature of the internet, popular web services
will often run on web clusters in order to guarantee the availability and scalability of the web …

Modern Internet applications are subject to significant variations in workload demand and
this may affect the applications performance. Such kind of applications are usually hosted on …

Modern enterprise systems are expected to provide their services in a responsive manner
(Armbrust et al., 2009). The performance requirements of such systems are important …

The overload of the servers and the resulting decrease in the Quality of Service (QoS) and
performance becomes more serious as the use of Web services grows. In order to avoid this …

This chapter provides a condensed description of a roadmap for research in technologies for
assessment, measurement and benchmarking (AMB) of the resilience of information …