When cloud meets eBay: Towards effective pricing for cloud computing

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 936-944

  Wang, Qian ^a   Ren, Kui ^a   Meng, Xiaoqiao ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; CLOUD PROVIDERS; CLOUD SERVICES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COMPUTING RESOURCE; DISHONEST USERS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; NETWORK USERS; PAY-AS-YOU-GO; POLYNOMIAL COMPLEXITY; PRICING MECHANISM; PRICING MODELS; RESOURCE MARKETS; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SPOT PRICE;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS; ECONOMICS; INTERNET; NATURAL RESOURCES;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84861597727     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2012.6195844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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