An observation-based approach towards self-managing web servers

Computer Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1174-1188

  Chandra, Abhishek ^c   Pradhan, Prashant ^a   Tewari, Renu ^b   Sahu, Sambit ^a   Shenoy, Prashant ^d  

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

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic resource allocation; Self managing; Web server

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER MONITORS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SERVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELF-MANAGING; WEB SERVERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33646521527     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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