Revenue Maximization with Optimal Capacity Control in Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Markets

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 261-274

  Toosi, Adel Nadjaran ^a   Vanmechelen, Kurt ^b   Ramamohanarao, Kotagiri ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; SALES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CAPACITY ALLOCATION; ON-LINE DECISION MAKINGS; OPTIMAL ALGORITHM; OPTIMAL CAPACITY; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; RESOURCE CONTENTION; REVENUE MAXIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 84941000043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2014.2382119     Document Type: Article

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