Cost-Efficient Scheduling of Elastic Processes in Hybrid Clouds

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 17-24

  Hoenisch, Philipp ^a   Hochreiner, Christoph ^a   Schuller, Dieter ^b   Schulte, Stefan ^a   Mendling, Jan ^c   Dustdar, Schahram ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business Process Management; Cloud Computing; Elastic Processes; Hybrid Clouds; Optimization; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS; DATA TRANSFER; EFFICIENCY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ELASTIC PROCESS; HYBRID CLOUDS; PROBLEM DEFINITION; PROCESS ENACTMENT; TRANSFER CAPABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84960091717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2015.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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