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Although OSNs are major and growing large scale web applications, there is still a lack of workload models and tools for performance evaluation and testability studies. This fact motivates us to develop a general purpose benchmark for evaluating the main hardware and software resources associated to this kind of applications. To this end, we have developed a flexible workload model based on interactive...
Uses, applications and functionalities of Online Social Network (OSN) are continuously changing and adapting to the new habits of users. The massive adoption of smart mobile devices and the appearance of new roles such as community managers have had a strong influence in the wide use of these networks among all sectors of population regardless of age, gender or socio-economic status. Consequently,...
This paper links the economic cost of the cloud infrastructure to the business model of an internet-based company in order to evaluate costs and benefits of web applications. To this end, performance models and indexes related to the usage of the main system resources (i.e. processor, memory, storage and network bandwidth) have been reformulated to include new useful metrics for business management,...
The increasing popularity of web applications has introduced a new paradigm where users are no longer passive web consumers but they become active contributors to the Web, specially in the contexts of social networking, blogs, wikis or e-commerce. In this new paradigm, contents and services are even more dynamic, which consequently increases the level of dynamism in user's behavior. Moreover, this...
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