Service system resource management based on a tracked layered performance model

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 175-184

  Woodside, Murray ^a   Zheng, Tao ^a   Litoiu, Marin ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; TUNING;

AUTONOMIC COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS (SLA); SERVICE SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33947639643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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