Socially optimal pricing of cloud computing resources

VALUETOOLS 2011 - 5th International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 322-331

  Menache, Ishai ^a   Ozdaglar, Asuman ^b   Shimkin, Nahum ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cloud Computing; Pricing; Social Efficiency

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS; TOOLS;

COMPUTING PARADIGM; COMPUTING RESOURCE; EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS; OPERATING EXPENSE; OPTIMAL PRICING; PROBLEM FORMULATION; SOCIAL EFFICIENCY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84897398506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.valuetools.2011.245733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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