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ECEB Publications

Architectures, Protocols and Resource Management | Books | E-commerce Education | |Knowledge Management and Agent-Based Systems | Scalability and Performance | Scientific Database Management | Security | Software Performance Engineering | Workload Characterization

Architectures, Protocols and Resource Management

D. Menascé and E. Casalicchio, "Quality of Service Aspects and Metrics in Grid Computing," Proc. 2004 Computer Measurement Group Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 5-10, 2004.

D. Menascé and E. Casalicchio, "A Framework for Resource Allocation in Grid Computing," Proc. 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 5-7, 2004.

M. Bennani and D. Menascé, "Assessing the Robustness of Self-Managing Computer Systems under Highly Variable Workloads," Proc. International Conf. Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), New York, NY, May 17-18, 2004.

M. Bennani and D. Menascé, "On the Use of Performance Models to Design Self-Managing Computer Systems," Proc. 2003 Computer Measurement Group Conference, Dallas, TX, Dec. 7-12, 2003.

I.S. Abdullah and D. Menascé, "Protocol Specification and Automatic Implementation Using XML and CBSE," IASTED conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT 2003), November 17-19, Scottsdale, AZ.

I.S. Abdullah and D. Menascé, "A unified architecture for the implementation of security protocols," Proc. Intl. Conf. on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE03), Las Vegas, Nevada, November 11-13, 2003.

D. Menascé, "Automatic QoS Control," IEEE Internet Computing, January/February 2003, Vol. 7, No. 1.

Daniel Menascé, Daniel Barbara, and R. Dodge, "Preserving QoS of E-commerce Sites Through Self-Tuning: A Performance Model Approach," Proc. 2001 ACM Conference on E-commerce, Tampa, FL, October 14-17, 2001.

Daniel Menascé, "Using Performance Models to Dynamically Control E-Business Performance," Proc. 11th GI/ITG Conference on Measuring, Modelling and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, Aachen, Germany, September 11-14, 2001, invited keynote paper for the 2001 Aachen International Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems.


D. Menascé, V. Almeida, R. Fonseca, and M. Mendes, "Business-oriented Resource Management Policies for E-Commerce Servers," Performance Evaluation, September 2000.

W. Meira Jr., D. Menascé, V. A. F. Almeida, and R. Fonseca, "E-representative: a scalability scheme for e-commerce, Proc. WECWIS 2000 Conference, Milpitas, CA, June 8-9, 2000.

H. Foxwell and D. Menascé, "Prefetching Results of Web Searches," Proc. Computer Measurement Group Conference, Anaheim, CA, December 6-11, 1998.

R. Dodge and D. Menascé, "Prefetching Inlines to Improve Web Server Latency," Proc. of the Computer Measurement Group Conference, Anaheim, CA, December 6-11, 1998.
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Books

D. Menascé, V. Almeida, and L. Dowdy, "Performance by Design: computer capacity planning by example," Prentice Hall, 2004

P. M. D. Gray, L. Kerschberg, P. King, and A. Poulovassilis (Editors), The Functional Approach to Data Management: Modeling, Analyzing and Integrating Heterogeneous Data, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2004.

D. Menascé and V. Almeida, "Capacity Planning for Web Services: metrics, models, and methods," Prentice Hall, 2002 (translated into Russian and Portuguese).

D. Menascé and V. Almeida, "Scaling for E-Business: technologies, models, performance, and capacity planning," Prentice Hall, 2000 (translated into Korean).

D. Menascé and V. Almeida, "Capacity Planning for Web Performance: metrics, models, and methods", Prentice Hall, 1998.

D. Menascé, V. Almeida, and L. Dowdy "Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling: from mainframes to client-server systems", Prentice-Hall, 1994.

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E-Commerce Education

"A Reference Model for Designing a Curriculum for E-commerce," IEEE Concurrency, March 2000.

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Knowledge Management and Agent-Based Systems

L. Kerschberg, H. Jeong, and W. Kim, "Emergent Semantics in Knowledge Sifter: An Evolutionary Search Agent based on Semantic Web Services," Journal of Data Semantics, Accepted for publication, 2006.

L. Kerschberg and H. Jeong, "Just-in-Time Knowledge Management," Keynote Talk, Third Conference on Professional Knowledge Management, April 10-13, 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

R. Morikawa and L. Kerschberg, "MAKO-PM: Just-In-Time Process Model," Workshop on Information Just-in-Time (WIJIT2005): Seeking a New Knowledge Management Paradigm, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 11, 2005.

L. Kerschberg and H. Jeong, "Ubiquitous Data Management in Knowledge Sifter via Data-DNA," International Workshop on Ubiquitous Data Management (UDM2005), Tokyo, Japan, April 4, 2005.

J. Cheng, R. Emami, L. Kerschberg, E. Santos, Jr., Q. Zhao, H. Nguyen, H. Wang, M. Huhns, M. Valtorta, J. Dang, H. Goradia, J. Huang, and S. Xi, "OmniSeer: A Cognitive Framework for User Modeling, Reuse of Prior and Tacit Knowledge, and Collaborative Knowledge Services," presented at Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-38), Island of Hawaii, 2005.

R. Howard and L. Kerschberg, "Brokering Semantic Web Services via Intelligent Middleware Agents within a Knowledge-Based Framework," presented at Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), Beijing, China, 2004.

R. Howard and L. Kerschberg, "Using Facets of Security within a Knowledge-based Framework to Broker and Manage Semantic Web Services," presented at Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management (SKM 2004), Amherst, New York, 2004.

R. Howard and L. Kerschberg, "Dynamically Managing the Delivery of Web Services via Workflow and Feedback," presented at International Conference on Information Systems, Workshop on E-Business (Web2004), Washington, DC, 2004.

R. Howard and L. Kerschberg, "A Framework for Dynamic Semantic Web Services Management," Special Issue on Service Oriented Modeling, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Volume 13, December 2004.

L. Kerschberg, “A Service-oriented Knowledge Management Framework over Heterogeneous Sources," NASA Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series, March 10, 2004.

D.A. Menascé, “QoS Issues in Large Distributed Systems,” Keynote address at the QoS Conference organized by the Italian Government, Rome, Italy, June 10, 2004.

H.J. Foxwell and D.A. Menascé, "MARVIN: A Web-Based System for Representing, Retrieving, and Visualizing Analogies," World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 7, No. 4, October 2004.

L. Kerschberg, M. Chowdhury, A. Damiano, H. Jeong, S. Mitchell, J. Si, and S. Smith, "Knowledge Sifter: Agent-Based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases using Semantic Web Services," presented at International Conference on Semantics for a Networked World, Semantics for Grid Databases, Maison des Polytechniciens, Paris France, 2004, pp. 276-293.

L. Kerschberg, M. Chowdhury, A. Damiano, H. Jeong, S. Mitchell, J. Si, and S. Smith, "Knowledge Sifter: Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases,"  SSDBM 2004, International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Santorini Island, Greece, 2004.

R. Howard and L. Kerschberg, "A Knowledge-based Framework for Dynamic Semantic Web Services Brokering and Management," WebS 2004, International Workshop on Web Semantics, in conjunction with DEXA 2004, Zaragoza, Spain, 2004.

R. Morikawa and L. Kerschberg, "MAKO: Multi-Ontology Analytical Knowledge Organization based on Topic Maps," Fifth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Knowledge Management, Zaragoza, Spain, 2004.

L. Kerschberg, "Functional Approach to in Internet-Based Applications: Enabling the Semantic Web, E-Business, Web Services and Agent-Based Knowledge Management," in The Functional Approach to Data Management, P. M. D. Gray, L. Kerschberg, P. King, and A. Poulovassilis, Eds. Heidelberg: Springer, 2003, pp. 369-392.

L. Kerschberg, W. Kim, and A. Scime, "A Semantic Taxonomy-Based Personalizable Meta-Search Agent," in Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, vol. LNAI 2564, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, W. Truszkowski, Ed. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 3-31.

Kim, W., Kerschberg, L. and Scime, A. Learning for Automatic Personalization in a Semantic Taxonomy-Based Meta-Search Agent. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), 1 (2).

H. Foxwell and D. Menascé, "Web-based Representation and Visualization of Analogies," , Proc. IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2002, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 13-15, 2002. 

Kerschberg, L., Kim, W. and Scime, A., Intelligent Web Search via Personalizable Meta-Search Agents. in International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2002), (Irvine, CA, 2002).

Kerschberg, L., Knowledge Management in Heterogeneous Data Warehouse Environments. in International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2114, (Munich, Germany, 2001), Springer-Verlag, 1-10.

Kerschberg, L. and Weishar, D. Conceptual Models and Architectures for Advanced Information Systems. Applied Intelligence, 13 (2). 149-164.

Kerschberg, L., Kim, W. and Scime, A., WebSifter II: A Personalizable Meta-Search Agent Based on Semantic Weighted Taxonomy Tree. in The 2001 International Conference on Internet Computing, IC 2001, (Las Vegas, Nevada, 25-28 June 2001).

Klusch, M. and Kerschberg, L. (eds.). Cooperative Information Agents IV: The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace, Fourth International Workshop. Springer, Boston, 2000.

Kerschberg, L., Kim, W. and Scime, A., WebSifter II: A Personalizable Meta-Search Agent Based on Weighted Semantic Taxonomy Tree. in International Conference on Internet Computing, (Las Vegas, NV, 2001), 14-20.

Scime, A. and Kerschberg, L., WebSifter: An Ontological Web-Mining Agent for E-Business. in Proceedings of the 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9): Semantic Issues in e-Commerce Systems, (Hong Kong, 25-28 April 2001), IFIP, 200-214.

Scime, A. and Kerschberg, L., WebSifter: An Ontology-Based Personalizable Search Agent for the Web. in 2000 Kyoto International Conference on Digital Libraries: Research and Practice, (Kyoto University, 13-16 November 2000), IEEE Computer Society Press, 203-210.

Brodsky, A., Kerschberg, L., and Varas, S. (1999). “Resource Management in Agent-based Distributed Environments.” Cooperative Information Agents III, M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, et al., 50-74.

Kerschberg, L., and Banerjee, S. (1999). “An Agency-based Framework for Electronic Business.” Cooperative Information Agents III, M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, et al., 254-279.  

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Scalability and Performance

D. Menascé, "Mapping Service Level Agreements in Distributed Applications," IEEE Internet Computing, Vol.8, No. 5, September/October 2004.

D. Menascé and V. Akula, "Improving the Performance of Online Auction Sites through Closing Time Rescheduling," First International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), Twente, Netherlands, September 27-30, 2004.

D. Menascé and E. Casalicchio, "QoS in Grid Computing," IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2004, Vol. 8, No. 4.

D. Menascé, "Performance and Availability of Internet Data Centers," IEEE Internet Computing, May/June 2004, Vol. 8, No. 3.

D. Menascé, "Response Time Analysis of Composite Web Services," IEEE Internet Computing, January/February 2004, Vol. 8, No. 1.

D. Menascé, "Web Server Software Architectures," IEEE Internet Computing, November/December 2003, Vol. 7, No. 6.

D. Menascé, "Scaling Web Sites Through Caching," IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2003, Vol. 7, No. 4.

R. Dodge and D. Menascé, "Designing a Complex E-commerce Simulation," Proc. Seventh World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 27-30, 2003, pp. 243--248.

D. Menascé, "Scalable P2P Search," IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2003, Vol. 7, No. 2.

D. Menascé, "QoS Issues in Web Services," IEEE Internet Computing, November/December 2002, Vol. 6, No. 6.

D. Menascé, "Load Testing, Benchmarking, and Application Performance Management for the Web," Proc. 2002 Computer Measurement Group Conference, Reno, NV, Dec. 2002.


D. Menasc é, "Trade-offs in Designing Web Clusters," IEEE Internet Computing, September/October 2002. 

D. Menascé, "Load Testing of Web Sites," IEEE Internet Computing, July/August, 2002. 

D. Menascé and L. Kanchanapalli, "Probabilistic Scalable P2P Resource Location Services," 2002 Practical Aspects of Performance Analysis Workshop (PAPA 2002), Marina del Rey, CA, June 15, 2002. Also published in the ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, September 2002. 

V. Almeida and D. Menascé, "Capacity Planning: an Essential Tool for Managing Web Services," IEEE IT Professional, July/August 2002.


D. A. Menascé, "TPC-W: a benchmark for E-commerce," IEEE Internet Computing, May/June 2002.


R. Dodge, D. Menascé, and D. Barbara, "Testing E-commerce Site Scalability with TPC-W," Proc. 2001 Computer Measurement Group Conference, Anaheim, CA, December 2-7, 2001.


Lee, S.H., Hong, J.S. and Kerschberg, L. A Popularity-Driven Caching Scheme for Meta-search Engines: An Empirical Study. in Mayr, H.C., Lazansky, J. and Quirchmayr, G. eds. Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2001, Springer, Munich, Germany, 3-5 September 2001, 877-886.

Daniel Menascé and V. Almeida, "Challenges in Scaling E-Business Sites," 2000 Computer Measurement Group Conference, Orlando, FL, December 10-15, 2000.

D. Menascé and V. Almeida, "Performance of Client/Server Systems," in Performance Evaluation - Origins and Directions, eds. Guenter Haring, Christoph Lindemann, Martin Reiser, LNCS Series of Springer-Verlag, 2000. D. Menascé, "Web Performance Modeling Issues," International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 14, Number 4, Winter 2000, pp. 292-303.

G. T. Paixao, W. Meira Jr., V. Almeida, D. Menascé, and A. M. Pereira, "Design and Implementation of a Tool for Measuring the Performance of Complex E-commerce Sites," Proc. Tools 2000 Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2000.
Daniel Menascé and Virgílio Almeida, Scaling Your E-Business," Feb/Mar 2001 Cover Story, Software MagazineD. Menascé, B. Peraino, N. Dinh, and Q. Dinh, "Planning the Capacity of a Web Server: An Experience Report," Proc. CMG'99 Conference, Reno, Nevada, December 1999.

D. Menascé, A. E. Wang, B. Steele, and G. Weidman, "An Analytical Model of a Bandwidth Allocation Scheme for a Network Service Provider (NSP)," Proc. CMG'99 Conference, Reno, Nevada, December 1999.

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Scientific Database Management

Yoon, J. Raghavan, V., Chakilam, V., and Kerschberg, L., BitCube: A Three-Dimensional Bitmap Indexing for XML Documents. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol 17, No. 2/3, November, 2001, pp. 241-254.

Kerschberg, L. and Kafatos, M. (eds.). International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. IEEE Computer Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 18-20 July 2001.

Yoon, J.P. and Kerschberg, L., An Aggressive Aggregation of XML Documents for Summary Data Generation. in Fifth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI 2001, (Orlando, Florida, 22-25 July 2001).

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Security

D.Menascé, "Security Performance," IEEE Internet Computing, May/June 2003, Vol. 7, No. 3.

"A Methodology for Analyzing the Performance of Authentication Protocols," A. Harbitter and D. Menascé, ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security, vol. 5, no. 4, Nov 2002, pp. 458-491. 

A. Harbitter and D. Menascé, "The Performance of Public Key Enabled Kerberos Authentication in Mobile Computing Applications," Proc. Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-8), Philadelphia, PA, November 5-8, 2001.

A. Harbitter and D. Menascé, "Performance of Public Key-Enabled Kerberos Authentication in Large Networks," Proc. 2001 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 13-16, 2001.

Please visit Dr. Ravi Sandhu's LIST site for his publications.

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Software Performance Engineering

D. Menascé, "QoS-aware software components," IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2004, Vol. 8, No. 2.

D. Menascé, H. Ruan and H. Gomaa, "A Framework for QoS-Aware Software Components," Proc. 2004 ACM Workshop on Software and Performance, San Francisco, CA, January 14, 2004.

D. Menascé, "Two-level Iterative Queuing Modeling of Software Contention," Proc. Tenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2002),Fort Worth, TX, Oct. 12-16, 2002. 

D. Menascé, "Simple Analytic Modeling of Software Contention," ACM Sigmetrics Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 30, No. 4, March 2002. 
H. Gomaa, D. Menascé and M. E. Shin, "Reusable Component Interconnection Patterns for Distributed Software Architectures," Proc. Symposium on Software Reusability, Toronto, CA, May 18-20, 2001.

H. Gomaa and D. Menascé, "Performance Engineering of Component-Based Distributed Software Systems," in Performance Engineering: state of the art and current trends, ed. A. Scholz, LNCS State of the Art Series, Vol. 2047, Springer-Verlag , May 2001.

D. Menascé and H. Gomaa, "Design and Performance Modeling of Component Interconnection Patterns for Distributed Software Architecture,"   Proc. 2000 Workshop on Software and Performance, Ottawa, CA, September 17-20, 2000.

D. Menascé and H. Gomaa,A Method for Design and Performance Modeling of Client/Server Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, November 2000.

Gomaa, H., Kerschberg, L. and Farrukh, G.K., Domain Modeling of Software Process Models. in IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, (Tokyo, Japan, 11-14 September 2000), IEEE Computer Society.

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Workload Characterization

V. Akula and D. Menascé, "An analysis of bidding activity in online auctions," 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web'04), August 30-September 3, 2004, Zaragoza, Spain.

D. Menasce, B. Abrahao, D. Barbara, V. Almeida, and F. Ribeiro, "Characterizing E-Business Workloads Using Fractal Methods," Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press, Vol 1, No. 1, 2002, pp. 74--90. 
D. Menascé and V. Akula, "Towards Workload Characterization of Auction Sites," Proc. 6th Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-6), Austin, Texas, October 27, 2003.

D. Menascé, V. Almeida, R. Riedi, F. Ribeiro, R. Fonseca, and W. Meira Jr, "A Hierarchical and Multiscale Approach to Analyze E-Business Workloads," Performance Evaluation, North-Holland, Volume 54, Issue 1 , September 2003.

D. Menascé, "Workload Characterization," IEEE Internet Computing, September/October 2003, Vol. 7, No. 5.

D. Menascé, B. Abrahao, D. Barbara, V. Almeida, and F. Ribeiro, "Fractal Characterization of Web Workloads," The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2002), Web Engineering Track, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 7-11, 2002.

V. Almeida, D. Menascé, R. Riedi, F. Pelegrinelli, R. Fonseca, and W. Meira, Jr., "Analyzing Web Robots and their Impact on Caching," Proc. Sixth Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution, Boston, MA, June 20-22, 2001.

D. Menascé, V. Almeida, R. Riedi, F. Pelegrinelli, R. Fonseca, and W. Meira Jr., "In Search of Invariants for E-Business Workloads," Proc. Second ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Minneapolis, MN, October 17-20, 2000.

D. Menascé, V. Almeida, R. Fonseca, and M. A. Mendes, "A Methodology for Workload Characterization of E-commerce Sites," Proc. 1999 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Denver, CO, November, 1999.
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