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Performance investigation of an on‐line auction system
Author(s) -
Hillston Jane,
Kloul Leïla
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.546
Subject(s) - bottleneck , formalism (music) , computer science , process calculus , distributed computing , auction algorithm , theoretical computer science , computer network , embedded system , mathematics , auction theory , revenue equivalence , statistics , common value auction , art , musical , visual arts
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.