Using the particular example of online banking services, we examine the effects of pricing strategies on the demand for different modes of online banking given that the market exh...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
Jobs submitted into a cluster have varying requirements depending on user-specific needs and expectations. Therefore, in utility-driven cluster computing, cluster Resource Manage...
This paper analyses the structure of the Internet marketplace and the business relationships of key players involved in network services provision. A brief overview of existing pr...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...