Capturing, indexing, clustering, and retrieving system history

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 105-118

  Cohen, Ira ^a   Zhang, Steve ^b   Goldszmidt, Moises ^a   Symons, Julie ^a   Kelly, Terence ^a   Fox, Armando ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

bayesian networks; clustering; information retrieval; performance objectives; signatures

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING; ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC; OBSERVED SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE; SIGNATURES; SIMILARITY-BASED RETRIEVALS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84885599987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1095810.1095821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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