Financial option market model for federated cloud environments

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-12

  Toosi, Adel Nadjaran ^a   Thulasiram, Ruppa K ^b   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloud federation; Financial option; Market model; Reservation; Reserved instances

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FEDERATIONS; FINANCIAL OPTION; MARKET MODEL; RESERVATION; RESERVED INSTANCES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84874226508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UCC.2012.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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