CS5014: Homework 9

Due Friday, 27 October

Please turn in a hardcopy of the solution to this homework, written using LaTeX. You may not receive full credit if you do not staple together the pages of your homework.

1. Do Exercise 23.1 in Jain.

2. Do Exercise 23.2 in Jain, but only for interatvie job throughput.

3. Consider Experiment 4 in the WWW4 paper by Abrams, Standridge, Abdulla, Williams, Fox, ("Caching Proxies: Limitations and Potentials"). What method(s) of analyzing experimental results (e.g., confidence intervals, ANOVA, ranking method) did my co-authors and I use in section 3.4? In stating your answer, give the names and/or section numbers of analysis method(s) from the Jain text. Briefly justify your answer.