The cloud computing paradigm provides the" illusion" of infinite resources and, therefore,
becomes a promising candidate for large-scale data-intensive computing. In this paper, we …

Utility functions are a popular tool for achieving self-optimization in autonomic computing
systems. Utility functions are used to guide a system in optimizing its own behavior in …

In today‟ s database server environments, multiple types of workloads, such as on-line
transaction processing, business intelligence and administrative utilities, can be present in a …

Workloads running in a multi-purpose database environment often compete for system
resources causing resource contention, which leads to poor performance. Autonomic …

The rate of data growth in many domains is straining our ability to manage and analyze it.
Consequently, we see the emergence of computing systems that attempt to efficiently …