We present a semi-parametric model that describes pricing behaviors in a market environment, and we show how that model can be used to guide resource allocation and pricing decisi...
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria L. Gini, Paul...
Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm aimed to offer users pay-per-use computing resources, while leaving the burden of managing the computing infrastructure to the cloud provid...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Anmol V. Singh, Vasu Singh, T...
r that this abstract discusses, proposes a fully decentralized agent-based approach to global stabilization of resource utilization, based on local coordination. The core question ...
Evangelos Pournaras, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T...
E-commerce has transformed the way firms develop their pricing strategies, producing shift away from fixed pricing to dynamic pricing. In this paper, we use two different Estim...
Siddhartha Shakya, Fernando Oliveira, Gilbert Owus...
A crucial goal for future Grid systems is to strive towards user-centric service provisioning. A way to achieve this is through the use of economics-based resource management. Cur...