Autonomic metered pricing for a utility computing service

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1368-1380

  Yeo, Chee Shin ^a   Venugopal, Srikumar ^b   Chu, Xingchen ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced reservation; Autonomic management; Cloud computing; Quality of Service (QoS); Service pricing; Utility computing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT; CLOUD COMPUTING; FIXED PRICES; PRICING MECHANISM; PRICING PARAMETERS; SERVICE PRICING; SERVICE REQUIREMENTS; USER REQUIREMENTS; UTILITY COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

COSTS;

EID: 77955519189     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2009.05.024     Document Type: Article

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