Foreword ....................................................... xv
Preface ...................................................... xvii
Section 1
Resource Management Optimal Management of Human Resources
and Skills for Balanced Costs and SLA Attainment
Chapter 1
Capacity Planning and Management of IT Incident Management
Services based on Queuing Models ................................ 1
Ta-Hsin Li, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Juhnyoung Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Chapter 2
Modeling and Optimization of Complex Service Delivery Systems .. 33
Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Aliza Heching, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Chapter 3
Organizational Models for Service Delivery ..................... 53
Gargi B. Dasgupta, IBM Research, India
Shivali Agarwal, IBM Research, India
Renuka Sindhgatta, IBM Research, India
Chapter 4
Optimization of Service Development Strategy in a Global
Environment .................................................... 86
Nianjun Zhou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wesley M. Gifford, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Chapter 5
Improving Application Management Services through Ticket
Data Clustering ............................................... 119
Ying Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Chapter 6
Service Delivery Resource Management Using a Socially
Enhanced Resource Model ....................................... 148
Rong Liu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Shivali Agarwal, IBM Research - India, Bangalore, India
Renuka R. Sindhgatta, IBM Research - India, Bangalore,
India
Juhnyoung Lee, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Section 2
Operations Management Optimizations of Service
Operations - Incident, Problem, and Change Management
Chapter 7
Tuning up IT Services using Monitoring Configuration
Analytics ..................................................... 179
Liang Tang, Florida International University, USA
Chunqiu i Zeng, Florida International University, USA
Tao Li, Florida International University, USA
Larisa (Laura) Shwartz, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA
Genady Ya. Graharnik, St. John's University, USA
Chapter 8
Using Visual Analytics to Diagnose Productivity and Quality
Issues on IT Service Pools .................................... 207
Victor Cavalcante, IBM Research, Brazil Heloisa Candello,
IBM Research, Brazil
Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research, Brazil
Alan Braz, IBM Research, Brazil
Franklin Amorin, IBM Research, Brazil
Nelson Nauata, IBM Research, Brazil
Chapter 9
Optimization Model for IT Change Management ................... 233
Yixin Diao, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Daniela Rosu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Leila Zia, Stanford University, USA
Chapter 10
Using Machine Learning and Probabilistic Frameworks to
Enhance Incident and Problem Management: Automated
Ticket Classification and Structuring ......................... 259
Anca Sailer, IBM, USA
Ruchi Mahindru, IBM, USA
Yang Song, Microsoft, USA
Xing Wei, Inmobi, USA
Section 3
Process Management Optimization of Process Management
using Innovative, IT Services-Specific Models
Chapter 11
A Mashup-Based Approach to Optimize Human Performance in
IT Service Management ......................................... 300
Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos, Federal University of
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
David Loewenstern, White Pages, USA
Larisa Shwartz, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Chapter 12
A Service-Oriented Algebra for Optimizing the Management
of Service Requests ........................................... 337
Roman Vaculín, IBM Research, USA Yi-Min Chee, IBM
Research, USA
Daniel V. Oppenheim, IBM Research, USA
Lav R. Varshney, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, USA
Chapter 13
Predictive Analytics for Business Processes in Service
Management .................................................... 366
Yurdaer N. Doganata, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA
Geetika T. Lakshmanan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA Merve Unuvar, IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Chapter 14
Optimizing Cloud Storage Management Services .................. 404
Gabriel Alatorre, IBM Research Almaden, USA
Sandeep Gopisetty, IBM Research Almaden, USA
Divyesh Jadav, IBM Research - Almaden, USA
Bryan Langston, IBM Research Almaden, USA
Nagapramod Mandagere, IBM Research Almaden, USA
Ramani Routray, IBM Research Almaden, USA
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research Almaden, USA
About the Contributors ........................................ 453
Compilation of References ..................................... 430
Index ......................................................... 463
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