Managing web server performance with auto tune agents

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 136-149

  Diao, Yixin ^a   Hellerstein, Joseph L ^a   Parekh, Sujay ^a   Bigus, Joseph P ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

DYNAMIC SYSTEMS;

SERVERS;

EID: 0037234657     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/SJ.2003.5386833     Document Type: Article

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