Research Article

Performance investigation of an on-line auction system

  1. Jane Hillston1,*,
  2. Leïla Kloul2

Article first published online: 27 FEB 2001

DOI: 10.1002/cpe.546

Issue

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Special Issue: High performance agent systems

Volume 13, Issue 1, pages 23–41, January 2001

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Hillston, J. and Kloul, L. (2001), Performance investigation of an on-line auction system. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 13: 23–41. doi: 10.1002/cpe.546

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  1. 1

    LFCS, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, U.K.

  2. 2

    PRiSM, Université de Versailles, 45, Av. des Etats-Unis, 78035 Versailles Cedex, France

*LFCS, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, U.K.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 27 FEB 2001
  2. Article first published online: 27 FEB 2001

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  • CNRS/Royal Society. Grant Number: UIIVV 78171

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Keywords:

  • active networks;
  • agent systems;
  • electronic commerce;
  • load balancing;
  • stochastic process algebra

Abstract

The standard design of on-line auction systems places most of the computational load on the server and its adjacent links, resulting in a bottleneck in the system. In this paper, we investigate the impact, in terms of the performance of the server and its adjacent links, of introducing active nodes into the network. The performance study of the system is done using the stochastic process algebra formalism PEPA. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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