CloudGenius: A hybrid decision support method for automating the migration of web application clusters to public clouds

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1336-1348

  Menzel, Michael ^a   Ranjan, Rajiv ^b   Wang, Lizhe ^c   Khan, Samee U ^d   Chen, Jinjun ^e  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d North Dakota State University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloud migration; criteria set; decision support; decision making; migration process; selection problem

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLOUD MIGRATIONS; CRITERIA SET; DECISION SUPPORTS; MIGRATION PROCESS; SELECTION PROBLEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84979819188     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2014.2317188     Document Type: Article

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