An extensible and lightweight architecture for adaptive server applications

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 853-883

  Gorton, Ian ^a   Liu, Yan ^b   Trivedi, Nihar ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive; Autonomic computing; Components; Performance; Server applications

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SEPARATION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADAPTIVE FEATURES; ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORKS; BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION; BUSINESS LOGICS; CASE STUDIES; CONTROL COMPONENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; IMAGE BASED; LIGHTWEIGHT ARCHITECTURE; LOW OVERHEAD; MEMORY USAGE; NETWORK CONNECTIONS; PERFORMANCE GAINS; RUN TIME; SELF-MANAGING; SERVER APPLICATIONS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 47049121231     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.857     Document Type: Article

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