The state of the art in locally distributed web-server systems

V Cardellini, E Casalicchio, M Colajanni… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
The overall increase in traffic on the World Wide Web is augmenting user-perceived
response times from popular Web sites, especially in conjunction with special events …

Specification and implementation of dynamic web site benchmarks

Amza, Chanda, Cox, Elnikety, Gil… - 2002 IEEE …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The absence of benchmarks for Web sites with dynamic content has been a major
impediment to research in this area. We describe three benchmarks for evaluating the …

Utility-driven workload management using nested control design

X Zhu, Z Wang, S Singhal - 2006 American Control Conference, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtualization and consolidation of IT resources have created a need for more effective
workload management tools, one that dynamically controls resource allocation to a hosted …

Identifying user behavior in online social networks

M Maia, J Almeida, V Almeida - Proceedings of the 1st workshop on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Online social networks pose an interesting problem: how to best characterize the different
classes of user behavior. Traditionally, user behavior characterization methods, based on …

An introductory overview and survey of business-driven IT management

J Sauvé, A Moura, M Sampaio… - 2006 IEEE/IFIP …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Business-driven IT management (BDIM) is a new, evolutionary and comprehensive IT
management approach that aims to improve IT infrastructure, service quality and business …

A smart hill-climbing algorithm for application server configuration

B Xi, Z Liu, M Raghavachari, CH Xia… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval
and for conducting business transactions has ledto an increase in the deployment of …

On maximizing service-level-agreement profits

Z Liu, MS Squillante, JL Wolf - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
We present a methodology for maximizing profits in a general class of e-commerce
environments. The cost model is based on revenues that are generated when Quality-of …

Preserving QoS of e-commerce sites through self-tuning: A performance model approach

DA Menascé, D Barbará, R Dodge - … of the 3rd ACM conference on …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
The Quality of Service (QoS) of e-commerce sites plays a crucial role in attracting and
retaining customers. The workload experienced by these sites tends to vary in a very …

Monitoring computer process resource usage

ME Obrecht, RP Myers, AC Hartmann… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
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Demand-driven service differentiation in cluster-based network servers

H Zhu, H Tang, T Yang - … Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service differentiation that provides prioritized service qualities to multiple classes of client
requests can effectively utilize available server resources. This paper studies how demand …