Research challenges in control engineering of computing systems

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 206-211

  Hellerstein, Joseph ^a   Singhal, Sharad ^b   Wang, Qian ^c  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing systems; Control theory

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOPS; COMPUTING SYSTEM; COMPUTING SYSTEMS; CONTROL ENGINEERING; IN-CONTROL; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESOURCE USAGE; SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVE; SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; SYSTEM THEORY;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 75149144971     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2009.04.090401     Document Type: Article

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