Management of cloud infrastructures: Policy-based revenue optimization

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Püschel, Tim ^a   Neumann, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Information systems; Optimization; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROVIDERS; CLOUD SERVICES; DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY; GLOBAL MARKET; INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENTS; NEW APPLICATIONS; NEW YORK TIME; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; REVENUE OPTIMIZATION; SCANNED IMAGES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPETITION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; WEB SERVICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870961546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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