How Elasticity Property Plays an Important Role in the Cloud: A Survey

Advances in Computers

Volumn 103, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-30

  Bikas, M A N ^a   Alourani, A ^a   Grechanik, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto scaling techniques; Cloud computing; Cloud elasticity; Elasticity classification; Elasticity importance; Elasticity issues; Elasticity measure; Elasticity solutions; Elasticity survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964824545     PISSN: 00652458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.adcom.2016.04.001     Document Type: Chapter

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