Workload characterization is a well-established discipline that plays a key role in many
performance engineering studies. The large-scale social behavior inherent in the …

Semantic Web Mining aims at combining the two fast-develo** research areas Semantic
Web and Web Mining. This survey analyzes the convergence of trends from both areas …

A personalized product recommendation is an enabling mechanism to overcome
information overload occurred when shop** in an Internet marketplace. Collaborative …

This article presents findings of a study that aimed to identify key factors in the adoption of e-
commerce. The study involved a bibliometric analysis of statistical information from 408 …

Many large-scale software systems must service thousands or millions of concurrent
requests. These systems must be load tested to ensure that they can function correctly under …

One of the challenges in designing and maintaining e-business sites is to ensure their
scalability as the work-load increases. The article discusses a multi-layer reference model …

Software as a Service (SaaS) provides access to applications to end users over the Internet
without upfront investment in infrastructure and software. To serve their customers, SaaS …

The rapid growth of e-commerce has caused product overload where customers on the Web
are no longer able to effectively choose the products they are exposed to. To overcome the …

Abstract Web Usage Mining is the application of data mining techniques to Web clickstream
data in order to extract usage patterns. As Web sites continue to grow in size and complexity …

We consider a new, session-based workload for measuring web server performance. We
define a session as a sequence of client's individual requests. Using a simulation model, we …