Cost-minimizing service selection in the presence of end-to-end QoS constraints and complex charging models

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 154-161

  Ramacher, Rene ^a   Mönch, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost of Services (CoS); QoS Optimization; Quality of Services (QoS); Service Composition

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; CHARGING MODELS; COMPLEX SERVICES; COMPOSITION OF SERVICES; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; COST OF SERVICE; END-TO-END QOS; EXECUTION TIME; FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTE; GROWING MARKETS; NON FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; PROBLEM INSTANCES; QOS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITY DISCOUNT; SERVICE COMPOSITIONS; SERVICE INDUSTRIES; SERVICE MARKETING; SERVICE SELECTION; THIRD PARTIES;

COMMERCE; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84867364803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCC.2012.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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