Designing and rightsizing the information system architecture

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-245

  Ardagna, Danilo ^a   Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Piuri, Vincenzo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; IS architecture; IT costs; Optimization; Resource allocation; Sizing

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTIONS; IS ARCHITECTURE; SCALABILITY; SIZING IT COSTS;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 4344707207     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ISFI.0000037878.11967.50     Document Type: Article

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