Maximizing cloud provider profit from equilibrium price auctions

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 83-90

  Lampe, Ulrich ^a   Siebenhaar, Melanie ^a   Papageorgiou, Apostolos ^a   Schuller, Dieter ^a   Steinmetz, Ralf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocation; Auction; Cloud Computing; Equilibrium; Heuristic; IaaS; Optimal; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION; AUCTION; HEURISTIC; IAAS; OPTIMAL;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROFITABILITY;

COSTS;

EID: 84866769702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2012.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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