Generalized nash equilibria for the service provisioning problem in cloud systems

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 429-442

  Ardagna, Danilo ^a   Panicucci, Barbara ^b   Passacantando, Mauro ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

client server; Cloud computing; distributed applications; Game Theory; performance attributes; quality concepts; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

CLIENT /SERVER; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; GENERALIZED NASH EQUILIBRIUM; PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY CONCEPTS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SERVICE PROVISIONING; VIRTUALIZED RESOURCES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS); TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 84890482773     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2012.14     Document Type: Article

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