A funding and governing model for achieving sustainable growth of computing e-infrastructures

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 65, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 739-756

  Bany Mohammed, Ashraf A ^a   Altmann, Jörn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PETRA   (Jordan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Analytical modeling; Business models; Case study analysis; Computing services; Funding; Governance; Grid and cloud economics; Grid computing; High performance computing; Sustainability; Token based market mechanism

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELING; BUSINESS MODELS; CASE STUDY ANALYSIS; COMPUTING SERVICES; FUNDING; GOVERNANCE; GRID AND CLOUD ECONOMICS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MARKET MECHANISMS; SUSTAINABILITY;

COMMERCE; GRID COMPUTING; INVESTMENTS; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650885886     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12243-010-0188-9     Document Type: Article

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