A self-optimizing workload management solution for cloud applications

Proceedings - IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 483-490

  Wu, Haishan ^a   Tantawi, Asser N ^b   Yu, Tao ^a  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

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

Author keywords

application performance management; black box modeling; bottleneck analysis; cloud computing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DYNAMICS; INSPECTION; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; BLACK-BOX MODEL; BOTTLENECK ANALYSIS; BOTTLENECK DETECTION; BOTTLENECK RESOURCES; MODEL FREE CONTROLLER; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84891779173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICWS.2013.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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