Flexible use of cloud resources through profit maximization and price discrimination

Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 75-86

  Tsakalozos, Konstantinos ^a   Kllapi, Herald ^a   Sitaridi, Eva ^b   Roussopoulos, Mema ^a   Paparas, Dimitris ^b   Delis, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING RESOURCE; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING FRAMEWORKS; EQUILIBRIUM POINT; FINANCIAL PROFITS; INVESTMENT COSTS; LARGE DATA; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; RESOURCE SHARING; USER SATISFACTION; VALUE FOR MONIES; VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

BUDGET CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; LAKES; PROFITABILITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79957868125     PISSN: 10844627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2011.5767932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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