Achieving Self-Management via Utility Functions

Self-management in accordance with high-level objectives that users can specify is a hallmark of autonomic computing systems. The authors advocate utility functions as a principled, practical, and general way of representing such objectives. In an effort to bring the promise of utility-based framewo...

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Published inIEEE internet computing Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 40 - 48
Main Authors Kephart, J.O., Das, R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.01.2007
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
autonomic computing
Commercialization
Computation
Computer vision
Control system synthesis
Design optimization
Distributed computing
Humans
Internet
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Proposals
Prototypes
Resource allocation
Resource management
Stemming
Utilities
utility functions
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Summary:Self-management in accordance with high-level objectives that users can specify is a hallmark of autonomic computing systems. The authors advocate utility functions as a principled, practical, and general way of representing such objectives. In an effort to bring the promise of utility-based frameworks to the marketplace, they describe how they've implemented them in two commercial products so as to achieve efficient resource allocation in a prototype data center. They also address several challenges to commercialization stemming from the need to reconcile the two products' fundamentally different types of objectives
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ISSN:1089-7801
1941-0131
DOI:10.1109/MIC.2007.2