Rise of the planet of the apps: A systematic study of the mobile app ecosystem

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 277-290

  Petsas, Thanasis ^a   Papadogiannakis, Antonis ^a   Polychronakis, Michalis ^b   Markatos, Evangelos P ^a   Karagiannis, Thomas ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

App popularity; App pricing; Appstores; Clustering effect; Mobile apps; Revenue; Workload characterization

Indexed keywords

APP POPULARITY; APPSTORES; CLUSTERING EFFECT; MOBILE APPS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

COSTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EARNINGS; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84890079313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2504730.2504749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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