A pricing information service for grid computing

Proceedings - IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Caracas, Alexandru ^a   Altmann, Jörn ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b International University   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grid utility computing; Pricing information service; Pricing schemes; Service level agreements

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COSTS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MIDDLEWARE;

COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENTS; COMPUTING SERVICES; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; GRID ENVIRONMENTS; PRICING SCHEME; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; UTILITY COMPUTING;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 57349093787     PISSN: 15505510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1376849.1376853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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