Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization

Shaping the Landscape of Industry Standard Benchmarks: Contributions of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). - Metrics for Measuring the Performance of the Mixed Workload CH-benCHmark. -Towards an Enhanced Benchmark Advocating Energy-Efficient Systems. -Optimization of Analytic Data Flows for Next Generation Business Intelligence Applications. -Normalization in a Mixed OLTP and OLAP Workload Scenario. -Measuring Performance of Complex Event Processing Systems. -Benchmarking with Your Head in the Cloud. -Extending TPC-E to Measure Availability in Database Systems. -SI-CV: Snapshot Isolation with Co-located Version. -Introducing Skew into the TPC-H Benchmark. -Time and Cost-Efficient Modeling and Generation of Large-Scale TPCC/TPCE/TPCH Workloads. -When Free Is Not Really Free: What Does It Cost to Run a Database Workload in the Cloud? . -A Fine-Grained Performance-Based Decision Model for Virtualization Application Solution. -A PDGF Implementation for TPC-H. -