Control engineering for computing systems - industry experience and research challenges
Joseph L. Hellerstein, Yixin Diao, S. Parekh, Dawn M. Tilbury · IEEE Control Systems · 2005
Control theory has an important role to play in developing new computing systems, especially complicated software systems. Control problems that commonly occur in computing systems include regulating service levels, optimizing resources, and rejecting disturbances such as variable workloads. Developing control systems to address these problems involves a number of challenges. The article describes some of the challenges that arise in applying control theory to computing systems.