An economic model for maximizing profit of a cloud service provider

Proceedings - 2012 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 274-279

  Thanakornworakij, Thanadech ^a   Nassar, Raja ^a   Leangsuksun, Chokchai Box ^a   Paun, Mihaela ^a,b  

^a Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

^b National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Science   (Romania)

Author keywords

A Cloud Economic model; Availability; Cloud TCO; Cost; Penalty; Profit maximization

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; CLOUD DATA; CLOUD SERVICES; COMPUTING RESOURCE; ECONOMIC MODELS; KEY ELEMENTS; PENALTY; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP;

AVAILABILITY; COSTS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROFITABILITY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84869464506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2012.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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