Marinescu, Dan C. creator text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic book. mau Cambridge, Mass Morgan Kaufmann 2017 monographic eng

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1 online resource. Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Complex Systems -- 1.1. The Thinking on Complex Systems Through the Centuries -- 1.2. The Many Facets of Complexity -- 1.3. Laws of Nature, Nondeterminism, and Complex Systems -- 1.4. Self-Similarity: Fractal Geometry -- 1.5. Power Law Distributions: Zipf's Law -- 1.6. Emergence, Nonlinearity, and Phase Transitions -- 1.7. Open Systems and the Environment -- 1.8. Self-Organization and Self-Organized Criticality -- 1.9. Cybernetics -- 1.10. Quantitative Characterization of Complexity: Entropy -- 1.11.Computational Irreducibility -- 1.12. The Interdisciplinary Nature of Complexity -- ch. 2 Nature-Inspired Algorithms and Systems -- 2.1. Cellular Automata -- 2.2. Epidemic Algorithms -- 2.3. Genetic Algorithms -- 2.4. Ant Colony Optimization -- 2.5. Swarm Intelligence -- 2.6. DNA Computing -- 2.7. Quantum Information Processing Systems -- 2.8. Membrane Computing -- 2.9. Can There Be a Deus Ex Machina in Computing? -- 2.10. Major Contributions and Further Readings. Note continued: ch. 3 Managing Complexity of Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems -- 3.1. Cyber-Physical Systems -- 3.2. System Composability and the Role of Software -- 3.3. Managing Complexity -- 3.4. Challenges Specific to Large-Scale Systems -- 3.5. Autonomic Computing -- 3.6. Scalable System Organization -- 3.7.Complex Networks -- 3.8. Virtualization by Aggregation: Coalition Formation -- 3.9. Cooperative Games for Coalition Formation -- 3.10. Cyber-Physical Systems and Their Self-Organization Saga -- 3.11. Self-Organization of Sensor Networks -- 3.12. Further Readings on Large-Scale Systems and Self-Organization -- ch. 4 Computer Clouds -- 4.1.A Down-to-Earth View of Clouds -- 4.2. Cloud Delivery Models -- 4.3. How Clouds Changed Our Thinking About Computing -- 4.4. Hierarchical Organization: Warehouse-Scale Computers -- 4.5. Energy Consumption, Elasticity, and Over-Provisioning -- 4.6. Cloud Resource Management Policies and Mechanisms -- 4.7. Cloud Resource Management Systems. Note continued: 4.8. Market Mechanisms for Cloud Resource Management -- 4.9. Cloud Federations and Server Coalitions -- 4.10. Auctions: Concepts, Rules, and Environments -- 4.11.Combinatorial Auctions: The Clock-Proxy Auction -- 4.12. Further Readings on Clouds and Cloud Resource Management -- ch. 5 Cloud Self-Organization and Big Data Applications -- 5.1. Big Data Applications in Science and Engineering -- 5.2.A Case Study: Tensor Network Contraction on AWS -- 5.3. Server Coalitions, Combinatorial Auctions, and Big Data -- 5.4. History-Based Rack-Level Coalition Formation -- 5.5.A Combinatorial Auction Protocol -- 5.6. Evaluation of Cloud Policies and Mechanisms -- 5.7. Hierarchical Control Versus Market Mechanisms -- 5.8. History-Based Versus Just-in-Time Coalitions -- 5.9. Analysis and Evaluation of the Proxy Phase -- 5.10. Software Organization for a Reservation System -- 5.11. An Integrated Strategy for Cloud Software Development. Dan C. Marinescu. Includes bibliographical references and index. Computer systems Management Cloud computing COMPUTERS Computer Literacy COMPUTERS Computer Science COMPUTERS Data Processing COMPUTERS Hardware General COMPUTERS Information Technology COMPUTERS Machine Theory COMPUTERS Reference Cloud computing Computer systems Management QA76.9.M3 004.068 (OCoLC)947816757 9780128040942 0128040947 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128040416 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128040416 YDX 161018 20190328114817.0 ocn960895608 eng