A support vector machine based approach for forecasting of network weather services

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-114

  Prem, Hema ^a   Raghavan, N R Srinivasa ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Available CPU; Forecasting; Network bandwidth; Network weather services; Performance metrics; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645796880     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-005-9017-1     Document Type: Article

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