Moving applications to the cloud: An approach based on application model enrichment

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-356

  Leymann, Frank ^a   Fehling, Christopg ^a   Mietzner, Ralph ^a   Nowak, Alexander ^a   Dustdar, Schahram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Application modeling; Cloud computing; Metamodels

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052998424     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843011002250     Document Type: Article

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