Joint optimization of hardware and network costs for distributed computer systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 470-484

  Ardagna, Danilo ^a   Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Trubian, Marco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Client server; Costs; Distributed computing; Networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST FUNCTIONS; COST REDUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 41149106316     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.914749     Document Type: Article

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