Practical application of control theory to web services

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1992-1997

  Abdelzaher, Tarek ^a   Lu, Ying ^a   Zhang, Ronghua ^a   Henriksson, Dan ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLWARE; FEEDFORWARD CONTROL; WEB SERVERS;

CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 8744237998     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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