Publication - Towards a Model of WWW Site Response Times

Authors: Wagner, T.
Title: Towards a Model of WWW Site Response Times
Abstract: Intuitively we believe that different WWW sites have different response time characteristics and that the characteristics change during the course of the day. These differences are important in the Cooperative Information Gathering paradigm because agents search and retrieve information on the WWW with real-time constraints. Thus agents must often plan which sites to search and choose between multiple possible sites -- response time is one factor used in making this choice. In this empirical study we show that different WWW sites have different response time characteristics and that for many sites response times are cyclical within a 24 hour period. We derive regression models for the sites that can be used in Cooperative Information Gathering and propose future research directions.
Publication: UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 96-19
Date: January 1996
Sources: PS: ftp://ftp.cs.umass.edu/pub/techrept/techreport/1996/UM-CS-1996-019.ps
PDF: /Documents/UM-CS-1996-019.pdf
Reference: Wagner, T.. Towards a Model of WWW Site Response Times. UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 96-19. January 1996.
bibtex: 
@article{Wagner-72,
  author    = "T. Wagner",
  title     = "{Towards a Model of WWW Site Response Times}",
  journal   = "UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 96-19",
  month     = "January",
  year      = "1996",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/72",
}