Automatic Optimization for a

Clustering Based Approach to Support

IT Management

Can BOZDOGAN, Nur ZINCIR-HEYWOOD, Yasemin GOKCEN

Faculty of Computer Science

Canada

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Introduction

• We propose a system for automatically

optimizing a decision support system for IT

management tasks in order to manage

problems in IT environments.

• Fixing failures and problems is a time

consuming job and it is costly.

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Framework

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Problem(Title) and Solution Sample From Experience Data Sets

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GOAL

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Three main steps:

reating core clusters

xpanding clusters

ophistication - Fine tuning of the cluster

Five parameters:

Dictionary Threshold

Cluster-Cluster Similarity Threshold

Cluster-Document Similarity Threshold

Document-Document Threshold

Content Value

1) (Proposed)

Individual Representation:

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Evolutionary Component of MOGA

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Data Sets Employed

• PrincetonDS : Desktop Computing, Services & Facilities, Navigating the Web, Operating

Systems, and Policies and Guidelines

• ParallelsDS : Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Desktop for Upgrading to Windows 7

Licensing, Activation & Registration, Parallels Sphera, Parallels Helm, Parallels Confix, Parallels

SiteStudio, Parallels Plesk Products, and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

• GoDaddyDS : Registering Domain Names, SSL Certificates, and Express Email Marketing.

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Experiments and Results

Performance Metrics

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Performance Metrics

Experiments and Results

• Algorithms and Distance Measures Results

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Average Precision, Recall and Standard Deviation calculated for

each technique on all databases

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Experiments and Results

• Algorithms and Distance Measures Results

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Fbetween and Fwithin calculated for each technique on all

databases

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Conclusions

• Possible to automate

• Possible to adapt and optimize

• For different publicly available dataset

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Questions?

gokcen@cs.dal.ca

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