Experience transfer for the configuration tuning in large-scale computing systems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 388-401

  Chen, Haifeng ^a   Zhang, Wenxuan ^b   Jiang, Guofei ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active sampling; configuration tuning; Distributed systems; knowledge acquisition; knowledge reuse

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SAMPLING; CONFIGURATION TUNING; CURRENT SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REUSE; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT TASKS; MODEL CONFIGURATION; NEW STRATEGY; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER DEPENDENCY; SEARCH EFFICIENCY; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; TUNING ALGORITHM; WEB-BASED SYSTEM;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 79251493328     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.121     Document Type: Article

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