Towards data center self-diagnosis using a mobile robot

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 81-90

  Lenchner, Jonathan ^a   Isci, Canturk ^a   Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a   Mansley, Christopher ^b   Connell, Jonathan ^a   McIntosh, Suzanne ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomous systems; data centers; energy efficiency; mobile robots; self managing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC ELEMENTS; AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; DATA CENTERS; ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; SELF-DIAGNOSIS; SELF-MANAGING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; MOBILE ROBOTS;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960160601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1998582.1998597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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