Finding probably better system configurations quickly

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 264-275

  Osogami, Takayuki ^a   Itoko, Toshinari ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Local search; Performance optimization; Ranking and selection; Screening; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SCREENING;

LOCAL SEARCH; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION; RANKINGS; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750282704     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: 01635999     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1140103.1140308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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