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Cloud computing offers a variable-cost payment scheme that allows cloud customers to specify the price they are willing to pay for renting spot instances to run their applications at much lower costs than fixed payment schemes, and…

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Public cloud service vendors provide a surplus of computing resources at a cheaper price as a spot instance. Despite the cheaper price, the spot instance can be forced to be shutdown at any moment whenever the surplus resources are in…

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Cloud vendors offer discounted spot instances to maximize surplus resource utilization, but these instances are subject to the risk of sudden interruption. Traditional pricing datasets have been employed to predict this risk, yet recent…

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As more and more users begin to use the cloud for their computing needs, datacenter operators are increasingly pressed to effectively allocate their resources among these client users. Yet while much work has been done in this area,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Carlee Joe-Wong , Soumya Sen

Cloud computing refers to a paradigm shift to overall IT solutions while raising the accessibility, scalability and effectiveness through its enabling technologies. However, migrated cloud platforms and services cost benefits as well as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-05-21 Abhinav Pandey , Akash Pandey , Ankit Tandon , Brajesh Kr Maurya , Upendra Kushwaha , Dr. Madhvendra Mishra , Vijayshree Tiwari

Cloud computing has been shown to be an essential enabling technology for public sector organizations PSOs and offers numerous potential benefits, including reduced information technology infrastructure costs, increased innovation…

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Securing necessary resources for edge computing processes via effective resource trading becomes a critical technique in supporting computation-intensive mobile applications. Conventional onsite spot trading could facilitate this paradigm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Minghui Liwang , Ruitao Chen , Xianbin Wang , Xuemin , Shen

Cloud computing recently developed into a viable alternative to on-premises systems for executing high-performance computing (HPC) applications. With the emergence of new vendors and hardware options, there is now a growing need to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Mohammad Mohammadi , Timur Bazhirov

As foundation models grow in size, fine-tuning them becomes increasingly expensive. While GPU spot instances offer a low-cost alternative to on-demand resources, their volatile prices and availability make deadline-aware scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Linggao Kong , Yuedong Xu , Lei Jiao , Chuan Xu

Cloud computing is an emerging computing model where IT and computing operations are delivered as services in highly scalable and cost effective manner. Recently, embarking this new model in business has become popular. Companies in diverse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Jafar Shayan , Ahmad Azarnik , Suriayati Chuprat , Sasan Karamizadeh , Mojtaba Alizadeh

In Amazon EC2, cloud resources are sold through a combination of an on-demand market, in which customers buy resources at a fixed price, and a spot market, in which customers bid for an uncertain supply of excess resources. Standard market…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Darrell Hoy , Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier

Given the continually increasing amount of commercial Cloud services in the market, evaluation of different services plays a significant role in cost-benefit analysis or decision making for choosing Cloud Computing. In particular, employing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Zheng Li , Liam O'Brien , He Zhang , Rainbow Cai

Cloud Computing is a versatile technology that can support a broad-spectrum of applications. The low cost of cloud computing and its dynamic scaling renders it an innovation driver for small companies, particularly in the developing world.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ananga Thapaliya , Subham Chakraborty

The availability of public computing resources in the cloud has revolutionized data analysis, but requesting cloud resources often involves complex decisions for consumers. Under the current pricing mechanisms, cloud service providers offer…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Yue Wang , Alexandra Meliou , Gerome Miklau

Cloud computing is continually evolving, enhancing hardware technologies, improving software and enhancing business processes. A payroll management system deployed on the Cloud harnesses on-demand of delivery of computational power and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Adeyemi Aina , Isaac Odun-Ayo

Cloud computing is a paradigm that has the potential to transform and revolutionalize the next generation IT industry by making software available to end-users as a service. A cloud, also commonly known as a cloud network, typically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Ranjan Pal , Pan Hui

Cloud Network Slicing is a new research area that brings together cloud computing and network slicing in an end-to-end environment. In this context, understanding the existing scientific contributions and gaps is crucial to driving new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Leandro C. de Almeida , Paulo Ditarso Maciel , Fábio L. Verdi

Cloud computing is the latest effort in delivering computing resources as a service. It represents a shift away from computing as a product that is purchased, to computing as a service that is delivered to consumers over the internet from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Ilango Sriram , Ali Khajeh-Hosseini

Cloud computing can be defined as the outsourcing / renting of resources over the network. It has been regarded as an essential utility similar to electricity, water, telephone and sewerage utilities. Over the years, a number of providers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Noman Islam , Zeeshan Islam

The competitive nature of Cloud marketplaces as new concerns in delivery of services makes the pricing policies a crucial task for firms. so that, pricing strategies has recently attracted many researchers. Since game theory can handle such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Safiye Ghasemi , Mohammad Reza Meybodi , Mehdi Dehghan Takht-Fooladi , Amir Masoud Rahmani