Cloud computing is emerging as an increasingly important service-oriented computing
paradigm. Management is a key to providing accurate service availability and performance …

Control engineering approaches have been identified as a promising tool to integrate self-
adaptive capabilities into software systems. Introduction of the feedback loop and controller …

Cloud computing has a key requirement for resource configuration in a real-time manner. In
such virtualized environments, both virtual machines (VMs) and hosted applications need to …

Resource allocation in the cloud is usually driven by performance predictions, such as
estimates of the future incoming load to the servers or of the quality-of-service (QoS) offered …

Container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Kubernetes-derived KubeEdge
(called Kubernetes-based systems collectively) have been gradually used to conduct unified …

There has been considerable interest in using control theory to build web servers, database
managers, and other systems. We claim that the potential value of using control theory …

The main responsibilities of a web server are to listen from the communication channel and
to prepare replies to requests. Additional responsibilities include adapting processing …

This paper develops an online resource provisioning framework for combined power and
performance management in a virtualized computing environment serving session-based …

As e-commerce services are exponentially growing, businesses need quantitative estimates
of client-perceived response times to continuously improve the quality of their services …

Most existing quality of service (QoS) control algorithms of Web applications take into
account Web Server or database connections which can be released immediately. However …