Over the past ten years, many pricing schemes have been proposed for a QoS-enabled network. Most of the proposed QoS-pricing schemes focus on congestion-sensitive pricing and opti...
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Web sites, Web pages and the data on pages are available only for specific periods of time and are deleted afterwards from a client’s point of view. An important task in order t...
: This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-ten...
: Mass customization has become one of the key strategies for a service provider to differentiate itself from its competitors in a highly segmented global service market. This pape...
Jian Cao, Jie Wang, Kincho H. Law, Shen-sheng Zhan...