Automated and On-Demand Provisioning of Virtual Machines for Database Applications

Summary: Automated on-demand VM provisioning for database apps on utility infrastructure via Shirako. NIMO uses online active learning to build performance models and guide SLA-aware VM leasing, demonstrated for multi-tier web services and scientific workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3936
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 6.2454934e-05
Overall Rank: 4,372 | 69.59%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
887	Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015578896
1,322	Automated Demand-driven Resource Scaling in Relational Database-as-a-Service	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012610912

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,850	Active and Accelerated Learning of Cost Models for Optimizing Scientific Applications	2006	VLDB	5.3009887e-05

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