Autotuning configurations in distributed systems for performance improvements using evolutionary strategies

Proceedings - The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 769-776

  Saboori, Anooshiravan ^a   Jiang, Guofei ^b   Chen, Haifeng ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO-TUNING; BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION; CONFIGURABLE; CONFIGURATION FILES; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; HILL CLIMBING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PARAMETER SEARCH SPACE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; REAL SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC DATA; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HEALTH; TUNING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 51849139411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2008.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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