Scaling
for E-Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning
Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN
0-13-086328-9
Daniel A. Menascé,
George Mason University,
Virgilio A. F. Almeida,
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil,
Table of Contents:
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Foreword by Jim Gray
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Preface
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PART I: Modeling for E-Business
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Chapter 1. Models for E-Business
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Chapter 2. Customer Behavior Models
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Chapter 3. The Anatomy of E-Business Functions
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PART II: Evaluating E-Business Infrastructure
and Services
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Chapter 4 Infrastructure for Electronic Business
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Chapter 5. A Quantitative Analysis of Authentication
Services
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Chapter 6 A Quantitative Analysis of Payment
Services
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Part III: Capacity Planning for E-Business
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Chapter 7 A Capacity Planning Methodology
for E-Business
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Chapter 8 Performance Modeling Concepts
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Chapter 9 Solving Performance Models of E-Business
Sites
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Chapter 10 Modeling Contention for Software
Servers
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Chapter 11 Characterizing E-Business Workloads
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Chapter 12 Preparing E-Business for Waves
of Demand
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PART IV: Models of Specific E-Business
Segments
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Chapter 13 Business-to-Consumer Case Studies
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Chapter 14 Business-to-Business Case Studies
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PART V: Summary, Challenges, and Perspectives
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Chapter 15 Wrapping Up
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Glossary of Terms
Quotes by Jim Gray, of Microsoft Research,
Stuart Feldman of IBM Research, and Howard Frank of the Robert Smith School
of Business of the University of Maryland at College Park.
About the Authors: Daniel A. Menascé
is a Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University, Virginia.
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California
at Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a Fellow of the ACM. Virgilio A. F. Almeida
is a Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.
Also from Menascé and Almeida:
Capacity Planning
for Web Performance: models, metrics, and methods, Menascé and
Almeida, Prentice Hall, 1998.
Capacity
Planning and Performance Modeling: from mainframes to client/server systems,
Menascé, Almeida, and Dowdy, Prentice Hall, 1994.