An evaluation method of outsourcing services for developing an elastic cloud platform

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Dou, Wanchun ^a   Qi, Lianyong ^a   Zhang, Xuyun ^a   Chen, Jinjun ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dependence function; Elastic cloud platform; Outsourcing service; QoS; Satisfaction function

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION FUNCTIONS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPETITIVE BUSINESS; COMPUTING POWER; ELASTIC CLOUD PLATFORM; END USERS; NEW SERVICES; SATISFACTION FUNCTIONS; SERVICE CAPACITY; SERVICE CATEGORY;

COMPETITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84872326429     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-010-0491-2     Document Type: Article

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