Availability modeling and cost optimization for the grid resource management system

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 170-179

  Dai, Yuan Shun ^a   Xie, Min ^b   Poh, Kim Leng ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Availability; Grid computing; Markov models; Optimization; Reliability; Resource Management System (RMS)

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INSTRUMENT SCALES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AVAILABILITY MODELS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COST OPTIMIZATIONS; DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; DYNAMIC SWITCHING; GRID RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS; HIERARCHICAL; INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONS; LARGE-SCALE; MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV REWARD MODELS; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (RMS); RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS; RESOURCE SHARING;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 54949134883     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.909546     Document Type: Article

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