Migration to cloud as real option: Investment decision under uncertainty

Proc. 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2011, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2011, 6th Int. Conf. on FCST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 940-949

  Yam, Chew Yean ^a   Baldwin, Adrian ^a   Shiu, Simon ^a   Ioannidis, Christos ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cloud computing migration; investment under uncertainty; real option; security decision making

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFITS; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; INVESTMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; IT SERVICES; REAL OPTION MODELS; REAL OPTIONS;

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INVESTMENTS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84856151310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2011.130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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