Mechanisms of Self-configuration and Self-optimization for Virtualized Architectures aiming the Provision of Quality of Service.

• Grant number: 11/12670-5
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): August 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal researcher: Marcos José Santana
• Grantee: Luis Hideo Vasconcelos Nakamura
• Home Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this doctoral project involves the research about autonomic computing, focusing on the development of self-configuration and self-optimization mechanisms for virtualized architectures that aims to ensure the provision of Quality of Service. These mechanisms will make use of autonomous elements based in computational agents that will be aided by a distributed ontology. Therefore, Semantic Web tools will be used in order to the ontology to represent a knowledge base with information collected by the computational agents. Such information will be used by optimization algorithms that may take the decision of choosing a new configuration that aims to optimize the architecture performance based on rules predefined by the administrator. The architecture configuration and optimization usually involves elements of software that must be managed by professionals in the Information Technology (IT) field and part of this management is composed of common tasks, for example, monitoring tests and performance evaluations. These tasks take some time and therefore generate costs and distress to the professionals. Thus, this project aims to automate some of these common tasks, facilitating the work of IT professionals and allowing them to focus on more critical tasks. Therefore, to achieve this goal a study and the creation of distributed mechanisms based on Autonomic Computing and Semantic Web will be done allowing the configuration and optimization of resources in the architecture automatically.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE AZEVEDO, LEONILDO J. M.; ESTRELLA, JULIO C.; NAKAMURA, LUIS H. V.; SANTANA, MARCOS J.; SANTANA, REGINA H. C.; TOLEDO, CLAUDIO F. MOTTA; BATISTA, BRUNO G.; REIFF-MARGANIEC, STEPHAN. Optimized Service Level Agreement Establishment in Cloud Computing. COMPUTER JOURNAL, v. 61, n. 10, p. 1429-1442, OCT 2018. Web of Science Citations: 0.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

NAKAMURA, Luis Hideo Vasconcelos. Mechanisms of self-configuration and self-ptimization for virtualized architectures aiming at the provision of quality of service. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação São Carlos.