System monitoring with metric-correlation models : Problems and solutions

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-22

  Jiang, Miao ^a   Munawar, Mohammad A ^a   Reidemeister, Thomas ^a   Ward, Paul A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heteroscedasticity; Metric correlation models; Multi variable correlations; System monitoring

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE SYSTEM; CORRELATION MODELS; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; IMPROVED MODELS; LINEAR MODEL; METRIC-CORRELATION MODELS; MODEL APPROACH; MULTI-VARIABLE CORRELATIONS; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM MONITORING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ERRORS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; METRIC SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 70049087989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555228.1555233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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