Integrated risk analysis for a commercial computing service in utility computing

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-24

  Yeo, Chee Shin ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grid economy; Performance evaluation; Resource management; Risk; Service; Utility computing

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GRID COMPUTING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OCEAN CURRENTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY FACTOR;

GRID ECONOMY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RISK; SERVICE; UTILITY COMPUTING;

RISK ANALYSIS;

EID: 60449086101     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-008-9103-2     Document Type: Article

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