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,
Detailed 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.
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About the Authors: Dr. 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. Dr. 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.
Errata
Last updated: October 9, 2001.