Optimizing system configurations quickly by guessing at the performance

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-156

  Osogami, Takayuki ^a   Kato, Sei ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Configuration parameters; Performance optimization; Ranking and selection; Regression; Web system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT TIME; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION; WEB SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 36348962461     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1269899.1254899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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