Cost-performance optimization of application-and context-aware distributed infrastructures

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

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1200-1213

  Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Giacomazzi, Paolo ^a   Poli, Alessandro ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Costs; Information technology (IT); System analysis and design

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RESOURCES; CONTEXT-AWARE; COST PERFORMANCE; COST SAVING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE; END TO END DELAY; IN-NETWORK; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE; SPECIAL DEVICES; SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; TOTAL COSTS;

COST REDUCTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955086030     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2027133     Document Type: Article

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