Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 52-67

  Javed, Barkha ^a   Bloodsworth, Peter ^a   Rasool, Raihan Ur ^a,b   Munir, Kamran ^c   Rana, Omer ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY NUST   (Pakistan)

^b KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud Market Maker; Dynamic pricing; IaaS cloud providers; Multi agent; Multi auction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCE; COSTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CLOUD MARKETS; DYNAMIC PRICING; IAAS CLOUDS; MULTI AGENT; MULTI-AUCTION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84938845920     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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