The research activities of the Performance Evaluation Group are in the areas of performance analysis, workload characterization and benchmarking of complex systems and services.
These activities include:

• Characterization and identification of Web robots
• Analysis of the evolution of Web sites
• Workload characterization of online social networks
• Characterization of spam traffic
• Workload characterization and benchmarking of mail servers
• Methodologies and tools for performance analysis of parallel programs
• Automatic performance analysis of parallel programs

These activities involve collaborations with academic and industrial partners.