Decision making in autonomic computing systems: Comparison of approaches and techniques

Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2011 and Co-located Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 201-204

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

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

comparison; decision mechanisms; design approaches

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC SYSTEMS; COMPARISON; DECISION MECHANISM; DESIGN APPROACHES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK; RUNTIMES; SELF-OPTIMIZING; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS;

DECISION MAKING; STATE FEEDBACK;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 79960158772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1998582.1998629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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