THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR DATA MINING TO DISCOVER WEB PERFORMANCE ISSUES IN A WIDE AREA NETWORK

Abstract

In this article we present the application of data mining (DM) to web performance forecasting. The main emphasis is to present the experimental design and data preparation steps of web performance forecasting based on web performance mining (WPM) method and developed in a wide area network using a multi-agent monitoring system MWING.

KEYWORDS:

• data mining
• Internet
• performance prediction
• web performance

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The MWING Team acknowledges support provided by the following people: Henry Selvaraj and David Zyzek, Las Vegas; Cezary Orłowski and Tomasz Sitek, Gdańsk; Tadeusz Czachórski and Krzysztof Grochla, Gliwice.

This work was supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under grant no. N516 032 31/3359 (2006–2009).