Modeling continuous changes of the user's dynamic behavior in the WWW

Understanding the characteristics of the users' workload is an important aspect when designing and providing web services. The majority of current workload characterization techniques introduce some limitations when representing the dynamism of the client behavior and the continuous changes in its role. This fact implies that the majority of the existing workload generators model these characteristics in a simple an improperly way. This paper focuses on the dynamism of WWW in general, and the new techniques to characterize the user behavior. Our work is addressed to develop a dynamic workload generator that considers the new behavior of the web clients, and the continuous changes in their role.

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