AUTOLOOP: Automated action selection in the "Observe-Analyze-Act" loop for storage systems

Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, POLICY 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 129-138

  Yin, Li ^a   Palmer, John ^b   Uttamchandani, Sandeep ^b   Katz, Randy ^a   Agha, Gul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ADMINISTRATORS; SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVES (SLO); STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS;

AUTOMATION; COSTS; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33744980459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/POLICY.2005.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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