A descriptive literature review and classification of cloud computing research

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-60

  Yang, Haibo ^a   Tate, Mary ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Classification; Cloud computing; Descriptive literature review

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS ISSUES; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; LITERATURE REVIEWS; ORGANISATIONAL; REFEREED JOURNALS; REFERENCE SOURCE;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84863834335     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03102     Document Type: Article

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