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SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A Cooperative Sampling Approach to Discovering Optimal Configurations in Large Scale Computing Systems
With the growing scale of current computing systems, traditional configuration tuning methods become less effective because they usually assume a small number of parameters in the...
Haifeng Chen, Guofei Jiang, Hui Zhang 0002, Kenji ...
LISA
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System
This paper presents a machine configuration system which stores all configuration parameters in a central ``database''. The system is dynamic in the sense that machines ...
Paul Anderson
LISA
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Using Service Grammar to Diagnose BGP Configuration Errors
Often network components work correctly, yet end-to-end services don’t. This happens if configuration parameters of components are set to incorrect values. Configuration is a fu...
Xiaohu Qie, Sanjai Narain
MASCOTS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Finding Good Configurations in High-Dimensional Spaces: Doing More with Less
Manually tuning tens to hundreds of configuration parameters in a complex software system like a database or an application server is an arduous task. Recent work has looked into ...
Risi Thonangi, Vamsidhar Thummala, Shivnath Babu
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic configuration of internet services
Recent research has found that operators frequently misconfigure Internet services, causing various availability and performance problems. In this paper, we propose a software inf...
Wei Zheng, Ricardo Bianchini, Thu D. Nguyen
ICRA
1998
IEEE
111views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Weighting Observations: The Use of Kinematic Models in Object Tracking
We describe a model-based object tracking system that updates the configuration parameters of an object model based upon information gathered from a sequence of monocular images. ...
Kevin Nickels, Seth Hutchinson
LCTRTS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Middleware For Building Adaptive Systems Via Configuration
1 COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) devices are capable of executing powerful, distributed algorithms. Very large, adaptive systems can be created by simply integrating these devices...
Sanjai Narain, Ravichander Vaidyanathan, Stanley M...
VLDB
2004
ACM
74views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Production Database Systems: Making Them Easy is Hard Work
Enterprise capable database products have evolved into incredibly complex systems, some of which present hundreds of configuration parameters to the system administrator. So, whil...
David Campbell