Optimal Policies for Batch Control Operations in Information Systems = 정보시스템 관리에 있어서 최적 배치 조정 정책

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

For an Information System to be successful the continual control of the database system(DBS) is very important. In general, such control operations are performed periodically in batches, even in real time systems. We explain DBS related such control operations and describe the decision problem in each of them. Specifically, backup, checkpointing, reorganization, and batch update operations are considered. Then we develop a general model of the batch backup situation to determine the optimal backup timing. Other operations are considered as special cases of the general batch backup operation. Under two common control policies, the optimal timings of the batch backup operation are derived and compared. We show that, in general, the control limit policy is superior to the fixed time interval policy in terms of the long-run average cost per unit time. Some practical considerations about the implementation of optimal policies are also mentioned.