A real options model for risk hedging in grid computing scenarios

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Meinl, Thomas ^a   Neumann, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE; MARKETING; RISK PERCEPTION;

CLOUD COMPUTING; CONTRACT MARKETS; EXPECTED UTILITIES; FLEXIBLE RESOURCES; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; IT RESOURCES; MAINTENANCE COSTS; NEUTRAL AGENTS; REAL OPTIONS; RESOURCE RESERVATIONS; RISK HEDGING;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 63349085498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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