Application heartbeats: A generic interface for specifying program performance and goals in autonomous computing environments

Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC '10 and Co-located Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-88

  Hoffmann, Henry ^a   Eastep, Jonathan ^a   Santambrogio, Marco D ^a,b   Miller, Jason E ^a   Agarwal, Anant ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

adaptive computing; self tuning systems

Indexed keywords

AD HOC METHODS; ADAPTIVE COMPUTING; ADAPTIVE SERVICES; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; APPLICATION PROGRAMMERS; AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING; BEHAVIOR-BASED; COMPUTING SYSTEM; GENERIC INTERFACES; HEART RATES; MULTI CORE; PROGRAM PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION; SELF-TUNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; STANDARD METHOD; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM SERVICES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; TUNING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954728886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1809049.1809065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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