A social compute cloud: Allocating and sharing infrastructure resources via social networks

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 359-372

  Caton, Simon ^a   Haas, Christian ^a   Chard, Kyle ^b   Bubendorfer, Kris ^c   Rana, Omer F ^d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cloud computing; preference based resource allocation; Social cloud computing; social networks

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; COMPLEX PREFERENCES; DIGITAL COMMUNITIES; INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCES; PREFERENCE-BASED; SOCIAL CLOUDS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84907219059     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2014.2303091     Document Type: Article

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