Controlling software applications via resource allocation within the Heartbeats framework

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3736-3741

  Maggio, Martina ^a,b   Hoffmann, Henry ^b   Santambrogio, Marco D ^a,b   Agarwal, Anant ^b   Leva, Alberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ENGINEERING;

ACTUATION MECHANISM; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; CONTROL PROBLEMS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; HEART BEAT RATES; MONITOR AND CONTROL; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; TEST CASE;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 79953087026     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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