A study on strategic provisioning of cloud computing services

Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Whaiduzzaman, Md ^a   Haque, Mohammad Nazmul ^b   Rejaul Karim Chowdhury, Md ^c   Gani, Abdullah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SECURITY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAXONOMY; WORKFLOW; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

EID: 84904136525     PISSN: 23566140     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/894362     Document Type: Review

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