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Application performance prediction in autonomic systems

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Shobhana Kirtane,

Jim MartinAuthors Info & Claims

ACMSE '06: Proceedings of the 44th annual ACM Southeast Conference

Pages 566 - 572

https://doi.org/10.1145/1185448.1185572

Published: 10 March 2006 Publication History

Abstract

An autonomic system is an intelligent system that is capable of self-configuration, self-healing, and self-management. Application performance prediction is a powerful tool that can be used in an autonomic system. Predicting application performance based on current or anticipated conditions provides fine-grained information that increases the chances that the autonomic manager makes correct decisions. In this paper, we report on the design and implementation of a system that can be used by an autonomic manager to predict the response times of transaction-oriented applications. Preliminary results suggest that our method leads to an average prediction error of less than 15% over a range of network and server loads.

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Application performance prediction in autonomic systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Model development and analysis
      1. Modeling methodologies

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