Towards optimal capacity segmentation with hybrid cloud pricing

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 425-434

  Wang, Wei ^a   Li, Baochun ^a   Liang, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; AUCTION MARKETS; CLEARING PRICE; DEMAND PREDICTION; DIFFERENT SERVICES; LOWER COMPLEXITY; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MULTIPLE MARKETS; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL CAPACITY; PAY-AS-YOU-GO; PRICE AUCTION; PRICING SCHEME; PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS; RESERVATION PRICE; SPOT MARKET; TOTAL REVENUE;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION;

COSTS;

EID: 84866914679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.2012.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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