Cloud service certifications: Measuring consumers' preferences for assurances

ECIS 2013 - Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jens, Lansing ^a   Stephan, Schneider ^a   Ali, Sunyaev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Best worst scaling; Certification; Cloud computing; Trust

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

BEST-WORST SCALING; CERTIFICATION; CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS; CONSUMERS' PREFERENCES; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; FINANCIAL STABILITY; PROCESS MATURITY; TRUST;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905845338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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