Elicitation and utilization of application-level utility functions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 107-116

  De Grandis, Paul ^a   Valetto, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Application utility; Instrumentation; Non analytic self assessment; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC APPROACH; AUTONOMIC APPLICATIONS; AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; DATA POINTS; ELICITATION METHODS; INSTRUMENTATION; NON-ANALYTIC SELF-ASSESSMENT; ON-LINE EVALUATION; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; RUN-TIME DATA; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS; RUNTIMES; SELF-ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 70049105374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555228.1555259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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