Automated control for elastic n-tier workloads based on empirical modeling

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 131-140

  Malkowski, Simon J ^a   Hedwig, Markus ^b   Li, Jack ^a   Pu, Calton ^a   Neumann, Dirk ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

adaptation engine; automated control; cloud; elastic system; empirical modeling; n tier application; workload

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ENGINE; AUTOMATED CONTROL; ELASTIC SYSTEMS; EMPIRICAL MODELING; N-TIER APPLICATIONS; WORKLOAD;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 79960191633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1998582.1998604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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