by wcappell | May 17, 2012 | 1 Comment
To date, most attempts to manage the costs and patterns of IT related energy consumption have focused on events and processes at the infrastructure layer. It is generally recognized that infrastructure level energy consumption management could end up frustrating the legitimate power consumption demands of business critical applications while oversupplying energy to applications that are [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: computational complexity, Energy Management
by wcappell | April 26, 2012 | 2 Comments
Supply and demand tend to move towards equilibrium in markets with prices serving as the mechanism by which that equilibrium comes about. The imbalance between supply and demand exerts a downward or upward pressure on prices, the results of which, in turn, modify amounts supplied and amounts demanded in opposite direction until a price emerges [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Algorithmic Game Theory, computational complexity
by wcappell | April 10, 2012 | 5 Comments
Whereas traditional AI focused on modelling the cognition of isolated individuals, Social AI is a relatively new discipline that seeks to model the way in which in groups of agents or actors perceive, analyze, and respond to events in their collective environment. Each agent or actor has its own local perspective on that environment. Furthermore, [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Social AI; Global vs. Local
by wcappell | April 3, 2012 | 3 Comments
An end user accessing a service from within a social network will behave differently with regard to that service than he or she would if the service had been accessed from outside the social network. This is, of course, particularly true if the service can be shared with other individuals in that network or if [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: AI, knowledge, service performance monitoring, social networks
by wcappell | March 30, 2012 | 4 Comments
The concept of a user-defined (or ‘business’) transaction is central to application performance monitoring (APM.) Not only is user-defined transaction profiling one of the five dimensions which Gartner takes as being essential to comprehensive APM solutions but most attempts to conceptualize application execution involve the idea that, in some sense or another, that execution is [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: analytics, models, transactions
by wcappell | March 28, 2012 | 10 Comments
Immanuel Kant, in his late 18th century classic, the Critique of Pure Reason, concluded that human cognition takes place on two levels. Level one consists of an initial organization of raw sense materials into geometric figures located in space and time which is then followed, on level two, by a determination of just how these [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: analytics, complex event processing, machine vision, stream database
by wcappell | March 26, 2012 | 6 Comments
Welcome to my new Blog! I hope you’ll join me in the coming weeks and months so that, together, we can explore some of the fascinating developments that are taking place, both academically and commercially, on the borderlines between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Infrastructure and Application Management (IAM). There has always been a high volume [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: AI, analytics, application performance monitoring, big data
