e-speed

The lab was founded in 1999 after the merge of the Parallel Computing Lab (LCP) and Computer Systems Modeling and Analysis Lab (ANADES). The acronym means "e-commerce System Performance Evaluation and Experimental Development" and has been coined to indicate its focus on researches on development of scalable e-commerce platforms and the modeling and analysis of such systems, specially web applications. Since then, the lab was involved with new research topics such as on-demand streaming, virtualization, data mining, bioinformatics, information retrieval and record deduplication, among others. Currently, new research fields have attracted attention from the Computer Science community such as Web 2.0 applications: blogs, social networks, video sharing networks and etc. Those topics have also been subject of investigation at e-Speed.