THE FRACTAL STRUCTURE OF DATA REFERENCE- P1:For purposes of understanding its performance, a computer system is traditionally viewed as a processor coupled to one or more disk storage devices, and driven by externally generated requests (typically called transactions). Over the past several decades, very powerful techniques have become available to the performance analyst attempting to understand, at a high level, the operational behavior of such systems. | THE FRACTAL STRUCTURE OF DATA REFERENCE Applications to the Memory Hierarchy The Kluwer International Series on ADVANCES IN DATABASE SYSTEMS Series Editor Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 Other books in the Series SEMANTIC MODELS FOR MULTIMEDIA DATABASE SEARCHING AND BROWSING Shu-Ching Chen R. L. Kashyap and Arif Ghafoor ISBN 0-79237888-1 INFORMATION BROKERING ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS DIGITAL DATA A Metadata-based Approach Vipul Kashyap Amit Sheth ISBN 0-7923-7883-0 DATA DISSEMINATION IN WIRELESS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS Kian-Lee Tan andBeng Chin Ooi ISBN 0-7923-7866-0 MIDDLEWARE NETWORKS Concept Design and Deployment of Internet Infrastructure Michah Lerner George Vanecek Nino Vidovic Dad Vrsalovic ISBN 0-7923-7840-7 ADVANCED DATABASE INDEXING Yannis Manolopoulos Yannis Theodoridis Vassilis J. Tsotras ISBN 0-7923-77 16-8 MULTILEVEL SECURE TRANSACTION PROCESSING Vijay Atluri Sushil Jajodia Binto George ISBN 0-7923-7702-8 FUZZY LOGIC IN DATA MODELING Guoqing Chen ISBN 0-7923-8253-6 INTERCONNECTING HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS Athman Bouguettaya BoualemBenatallah AhmedElmagarmid ISBN 0-7923-8216-1 FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS With Applications to Databases and Agents Gerd Wagner ISBN 0-7923-8212-9 DATABASE RECOVERY Vijay Kumar Sang H. Son ISBN 0-7923-8192-0 PARALLEL OBJECT-ORIENTED AND ACTIVE KNOWLEDGE BASE SYSTEMS loannis Vlahavas NickBassiliades ISBN 0-7923-8117-3 DATA MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE COMPUTING Evaggelia Pitoura George Samaras ISBN 0-7923-8053-3 MINING VERY LARGE DATABASES WITH PARALLEL PROCESSING Alex A. Freitas SimonH. Lavington ISBN 0-7923-8048-7 INDEXING TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCED DATABASE SYSTEMS Elisa Bertino Beng Chin Ooi Ron Sacks-Davis Kim-Lee Tan Justin Zobel Boris Shidlovsky Barbara Catania ISBN 0-7923-9985-4 INDEX DATA STRUCTURES IN OB JECT-ORIENTED DATABASES Thomas A. Mueck MartinL. Polaschek ISBN 0-7923-9971-4 DATABASE ISSUES IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS NabilR. A dam Aryya Gangopadhyay ISBN 0-7923-9924-2 THE .
