Pricing-based strategies for autonomic control of web servers for time-varying request arrivals

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 841-854

  Chen, Yiyu ^a   Das, Amitayu ^a   Gautam, Natarajan ^a,b   Wang, Qian ^a   Sivasubramaniam, Anand ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b 349 Leonhard Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Admission control; Pricing; Revenue; Slowdown; Web server

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; HTTP; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADMISSION CONTROL; PRICING; REVENUE; SLOWDOWN;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 9944220501     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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