Efficient contracting in cloud service markets with asymmetric information a screening approach

Proceedings - 13th IEEE International Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, CEC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 236-243

  Knapper, Rico ^a   Blau, Benjamin ^b   Conte, Tobias ^a   Sailer, Anca ^c   Kochut, Andrzej ^c   Mohindra, Ajay ^c  

^a FZI RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Non functional service attributes; Screening; Service pricing

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE SELECTION; ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; CLOUD SERVICES; CONTRACT THEORY; DESKTOP SERVICES; ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK; INCOMPLETE MARKETS; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; NON-FUNCTIONAL; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; OPTIMAL CONTRACT; POTENTIAL VALUES; SCREENING APPROACHES; SCREENING TECHNIQUES; SERVICE ATTRIBUTES; SERVICE PRICING;

COMMERCE; COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; LIBRARIES; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SALES;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80455168557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2011.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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