A coalitional game-based mechanism for forming cloud federations

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE/ACM 5th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 223-227

  Mashayekhy, Lena ^a   Grosu, Daniel ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AND JOINS; BREAK-AWAY; CLOUD FEDERATIONS; CLOUD PROVIDERS; COALITIONAL GAME THEORY; GAME-BASED;

GAME THEORY; PROFITABILITY;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84874223013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UCC.2012.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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