Achieving self-management via utility functions

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-48

  Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a   Das, Rajarshi ^a  

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

Author keywords

Autonomic computing; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847356880     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2007.2     Document Type: Article

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