Despite the fact that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) adoption increases, the question whether SaaS is the right choice for an organization is still open. The main objective of this study is to propose the Software Licensing Selection Support (SL2S) model for selecting a SaaS Licensing (SaaSL)...

Cloud computing aims at allowing customers to utilize computational resources and software hosted by service providers. Thus, it shifts the complex and tedious resource and software management tasks typically done by customers to the service providers. Besides promising to eliminate these...

In this paper, we introduce an analytical model for maximizing social welfare, which can be used for finding the optimal offering of a set of software services. The analytical model also explains the impact of service flexibility on customer¡¯s selection of business services and on the revenue...

Due to the large variety in computing resources and, consequently, the large number of different types of service level agreements (SLAs), computing resource markets face the problem of a low market liquidity. Restricting the number of different resource types to a small set of standardized...