Monitoring Computer Systems: An Intelligent Approach

<p>Monitoring modern computer systems is increasingly difficult due to their peculiar characteristics. To cope with this situation, the dissertation develops an approach to intelligent monitoring. The resulting model consists of three major designs: representing targets, controlling data collection, and autonomously refining monitoring performance. The model explores a more declarative object-oriented model by introducing virtual objects to dynamically compose abstract representations, while it treats conventional hard-wired hierarchies and predefined object classes as primitive structures. Taking the representational framework as a reasoning bed, the design for controlling mechanisms adopts default reasoning backed up with ordered constraints, so that the amount of data collected, levels of details, semantics, and resolution of observation can be appropriately controlled. The refining mechanisms classify invoked knowledge and update the classified knowledge in terms of the feedback from monitoring. The approach is designed first and then formally specified. Applications of the resulting model are examined and an operational prototype is implemented. Thus the dissertation establishes a basis for an approach to intelligent monitoring, one which would be equipped to deal effectively with the difficulties that arise in monitoring modern computer systems.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Year dc:date.available

1992

Author dc:creator

• Xu, Myron Zhihong

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stewart N. T. Shen
• Ravi Mukkamala
• Larry Wilson
• Jen-Kuang Huang

• Monitoring computer systems
• Intelligent monitoring
• Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

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Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/computerscience_etds/119

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oai:digitalcommons.odu.edu:computerscience_etds-1120