Utility services providers offer on-demand services for multiple users and applications from a shared resource pool. The utility computing environment provider manages resources th...
Advance reservation allows users to request available nodes in the future, whereas economy provides an incentive for resource owners to be part of the Grid, and encourages users t...
An increasing number of providers are offering utility computing services which require users to pay only when they use. Most of these providers currently charge users for metere...
Consumer informedness plays a critical role in determining consumer choice. Companies now use hyperdifferentiation and resonance marketing strategies to benefit from the long-tail....
Robert J. Kauffman, Ting Li, Eric van Heck, Peter ...
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...