Uses quantitative methods to analyze client/server and Web-based applications, leading the capacity planner in a step-by-step fashion through the process of determining the most cost-effective system configurations and networking architectures. CD-ROM included. Paper. DLC: Computer capacity - PLanning.
DANIEL A. MENASCE is a Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University, VA. He has published extensively in the area of performance modeling, client/system performance evaluation, and software performance engineering. Menasce was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in recognition of outstanding contributions to information technology.
VIRGILIO A. F. ALMEIDA is a Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He has published extensively in the area of distributed systems and World Wide Web performance. Almeida held visiting faculty and research positions at Boston University and XEROX PARC.