Generalized Nash Equilibria for the Service Provisioning Problem in Multi-Cloud Systems

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 381-395

  Ardagna, Danilo ^a   Ciavotta, Michele ^a   Passacantando, Mauro ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; game theory; generalized Nash equilibrium

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER GAMES; COSTS; GAME THEORY;

CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES; COST MINIMIZATION; GAME THEORY MODELS; GENERALIZED NASH EQUILIBRIUM; PROVISIONING POLICIES; RUNTIME MANAGEMENT; SERVICE PROVISIONING; WORK-LOAD DISTRIBUTION;

INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS);

EID: 85027439924     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2015.2477836     Document Type: Article

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