PreCog : a robust machine learning system to predict failure in a virtualized environment

The research in this work addresses the need for a warning system to predict future application failures. PreCog, the predictive and regressional error correlating guide system, aims to aid administrators by providing a robust future failure warning system statistically induced from past system behavior. In this work, we show that with the use of machine learning techniques such as Adaptive Boosting and Correlation-based Feature Selection, PreCog, without any prior knowledge of its target, can be accurately and reliably trained within a virtual environment using past system metrics to predict future application in a variety of domains.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Rogal, Adam (Adam R.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sridhar Rajagopal and Larry Rudolph.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46507

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/46507