We study an integrated data center network design problem for Internet-related services and cloud computing, of which the objective is to minimize total operating cost and service delay penalty by optimizing data center location, footprint allocation, and resource provisioning decisions, while...

In times of digitalization, new ways occur to integrate suppliers in the B2B buying process. Community cloud computing enhances the collaboration between B2B buyers and suppliers. However, so far, there is little empirical evidence on how B2B buyers can use community cloud computing to integrate...

This paper presents the design and implementation of the GridEcon Marketplace. In addition to supporting a market mechanism for trading computing resources on a pay-per-use basis, this marketplace also provides an environment for integrating value-added support services. These value-added...

Within this paper, we present the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and,...

Data centre is a facility, which houses computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Due to the emergence of data centre-based computing services, it has become necessary to examine how the costs associated with data centres evolve over time, mainly...

The emerging market of cloud computing encourages cloud service providers (CSPs) to deliver efficient and effective services on the basis of appropriate provisioning of service resources. Overprovisioning and underprovisioning of service capacity lead to the wastage of cloud resources and...