A survey of resource management in multi-tier web applications

D Huang, B He, C Miao - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Web applications are mostly designed with multiple tiers for flexibility and software
reusability. It is difficult to model the behavior of multi-tier Web applications due to the fact …

Self-managing systems: A control theory foundation

Y Diao, JL Hellerstein, S Parekh… - … and Workshops on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high cost of operating large computing installations has motivated a broad interest in
reducing the need for human intervention by making systems self-managing. This paper …