In this 25th year anniversary paper for the IEEE Real Time Systems Symposium, we review
the key results in real-time scheduling theory and the historical events that led to the …

The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of
commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers …

Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a promising new approach to systems performance
management that differs radically from standard queuing-theoretic approaches making use …

The growing popularity of the World Wide Web has led to the advent of Internet data centers
that host third-party web applications and services. In such data centers, the application …

This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-
tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved …

Managing the performance of multiple-tiered Web sites under high client loads is a critical
problem with the advent of dynamic content and database-driven servers on the Internet …

Recent advances in software and architectural support for server virtualization have created
interest in using this technology in the design of consolidated hosting platforms. Since …

Efficient resource management in cloud computing research is a crucial problem because
resource over-provisioning increases costs for cloud providers and cloud customers; …

Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a promising new approach to systems performance
management that differs radically from standard queuing-theoretic approaches making use …

Cloud elasticity allows dynamic resource provisioning in concert with actual application
demands. Feedback control approaches have been applied with success to resource …