Managing a SaaS application in the cloud using PaaS policy sets and a strategy-tree

2011 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Simmons, Bradley ^a   Ghanbari, Hamoun ^a   Litoiu, Marin ^a   Iszlai, Gabriel ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SERVERS; BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; RUNTIMES;

ELASTICITY; FORESTRY;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

ALIGNMENT; ELASTICITY; MANAGEMENT; NETWORKS;

EID: 84855754580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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