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Abstract: Autonomic systems promise to inject self-managing capabilities in software systems. The major objectives of autonomic computing are to minimize human intervention and to enable a seamless self-adaptive behavior in the software systems. To achieve self-managing behavior, various methods have been exploited in past. Case-based reasoning (CBR) is a problem solving paradigm of artificial intelligence which exploits past experience, stored in the form of problem–solution pairs. We have applied CBR based modeling approach to achieve autonomicity in software systems. The proposed algorithms have been described and CBR implementation on externalization and internalization architectures of autonomic systems using two case studies RUBiS and Autonomic Forest Fire Application (AFFA) have been shown. The study highlights the effect of 10 different similarity measures, the role of adaptation and the effect of changing nearest neighborhood cardinality for a CBR solution cycle in autonomic managers. The results presented in this paper show that the proposed CBR based autonomic model exhibits 90–98% accuracy in diagnosing the problem and planning the solution. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Many performance models for deterministic routing in multicomputer interconnection networks have been derived and analyzed under the assumption of the traditional Poisson stochastic arrival process, which is inherently unable to capture traffic self-similarity revealed by many real-world parallel applications. In an effort towards understanding the network performance under various traffic loads and different design alternatives, this paper presents an analytical model for dimension-ordered routing in k-ary n-cubes when subjected to self-similar traffic. As the service time, blocking probability and waiting time experienced by a message vary from a dimension to another, the design of such a model for dimension-ordered routing poses greater challenges. The developed analytical model is then used to investigate the efficiency of two different ways to organize virtual channels for deterministic routing and to evaluate the impact of self-similar traffic with various Hurst parameters on network performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Development of a new model for representing cloud services QoS attributes • New simulation tool for simulating the proposed model and MCDM models • Improving credibility & correctness of cloud service selection • Simplifies selection process by considering user's knowledge of cloud computing Cloud service selection process is significantly challenging and complicated as there are various QoS factors to consider when selecting cloud services. This paper proposes a new QoS-aware selection model systematically and succinctly representing QoS attributes which cloud consumers can easily use and understand when selecting cloud services. In order to ensure the credibility of the cloud service selection, the proposed model collects QoS data from different sources including cloud providers, users' reviews and cloud monitoring tools. It implements Multi-Criteria Decision Making models in order to rank services based on various QoS attributes. The proposed model is implemented as a simulation tool which is deployed on Amazon cloud platform. Using the simulation tool, the proposed model is rigorously evaluated through a number of experiments by taking into account data from widely used commercial cloud service providers. The experimental results show that the proposed model ranks and selects cloud services according to the QoS requirements of cloud service consumers. Unlike existing approaches the proposed model takes into account multi-level QoS attributes and data from real cloud providers when ranking cloud services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]