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Towards Using Simulation for Enhancing Web Information Systems’ Utility

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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2005 Workshops (WISE 2005)

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The awareness for quality of Web information systems is increasing. Utility is a quality aspect that is of particular importance with respect to the economical sustainability of Web information systems. Like other quality aspects, utility can be focused at a priori, at run-time, or a posteriori. A priori and runtime considerations of utility appear as not really appropriate with respect to utility. An a posteriori focus on utility however is dangerous, as maintaining an already deployed system is particularly expensive. We therefore suggest using simulation as a quasi a posteriori approach for utility enhancement. In the paper, we discuss a generic model of Web information system use. We furthermore discuss an algorithm for generating a simulation model out of that usage model. We also discuss the foundations of a heuristic for analysing the respective simulation model.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Massey University, New Zealand

    Phuong Nguyen & Sergiy Zlatkin

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  1. BBN Technologies, 48103, Ann Arbor, USA

    Mike Dean

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    Yuanbo Guo

  3. Dept. of Computer Education, Seoul National University of Education, Seoul, Korea

    Woochun Jun

  4. School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand

    Roland Kaschek

  5. Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3145, Caulfield East, Australia

    Shonali Krishnaswamy

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Dr., PA 18015, West, Bethlehem, U.S.A.

    Zhengxiang Pan

  7. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Sydney, Australia

    Quan Z. Sheng

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Nguyen, P., Zlatkin, S. (2005). Towards Using Simulation for Enhancing Web Information Systems’ Utility. In: Dean, M., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2005 Workshops. WISE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11581116_4

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