Data centers are experiencing unprecedented growth as the fourth industrial revolution's
supporting pillars and the engine for the future digitalized world. However, data centers are …

Modern software applications are subject to uncertain operating conditions, such as
dynamics in the availability of services and variations of system goals. Consequently …

Large-scale component-based enterprise applications that leverage Cloud resources expect
Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees in accordance with service level agreements between …

There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that
host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a …

In a typical large-scale data center, a set of applications are hosted over virtual machines
(VMs) running on a large number of physical machines (PMs). Such a virtualization …

Systems and methods for managing a system of heteroge neous workloads are provided.
Work that enters the system is separated into a plurality of heterogeneous workloads. A plu …

This paper presents an architecture for quality of service (QoS) control of time‐sensitive
applications in multi‐programmed embedded systems. In such systems, tasks must receive …

Utility or on-demand computing, a provisioning model where a service provider makes
computing infrastructure available to customers as needed, is becoming increasingly …

This paper describes an online control framework to design self-managing distributed
computing systems that continually optimize their performance in response to changing …

Computer systems hosting critical e-commerce applications must typically satisfy stringent
quality-of-service (QoS) requirements under dynamic operating conditions and workloads …