Usage-based dynamic pricing of Web services for optimizing resource allocation

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-242

  Lin, Zhangxi ^a   Ramanathan, Sathya ^b   Zhao, Huimin ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Incentive compatibility; QoS; Resource allocation; Resource pricing; Web services

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444445021     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-005-0018-1     Document Type: Article

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