Self-Awareness of Cloud Applications
  Cloud applications today deliver an increasingly larger portion of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services. To address the scale, growth, and reliability of cloud applications, self-aware management and scheduling are becoming commonplace. How are they used in practice? In this chapter, we propose a conceptual framework for analyzing state-of-the-art self-awareness approaches used in the context of cloud applications. We map important applications corresponding to popular and emerging application domains to this conceptual framework, and compare the practical characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks of self-awareness approaches. Last, we propose a roadmap for addressing open challenges in self-aware cloud and datacenter applications. 
Alexandru Iosup, Xiaoyun Zhu, Arif Merchant, Eva Kalyvianaki, Martina   Maggio, Simon Spinner, Tarek Abdelzaher, Ole Mengsho...
cs.SE cs.DC cs.NI cs.SY