TY - GEN
T1 - Pricing and autonomic control of web servers with time-varying request patterns
AU - Chen, Yiyu
AU - Das, Amitayu
AU - Gautam, Natarajan
AU - Wang, Qian
AU - Sivasubramaniam, Anand
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - A dynamic pricing structure which is fair to both client and servers is discussed. The study is carried out by considering a representative demand curve characterizing the relation of price (p) versus the probability (q) that an arriving customer would accept the price and enter the system. The main criterion for deciding pricing and control strategy is revenue obtained by the web service provider. It has been found that by rejecting some customers, it is possible to make the system extremely profitable.
AB - A dynamic pricing structure which is fair to both client and servers is discussed. The study is carried out by considering a representative demand curve characterizing the relation of price (p) versus the probability (q) that an arriving customer would accept the price and enter the system. The main criterion for deciding pricing and control strategy is revenue obtained by the web service provider. It has been found that by rejecting some customers, it is possible to make the system extremely profitable.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:4544219536
SN - 0769521142
SN - 9780769521145
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Autonomic Computing
SP - 290
EP - 291
BT - Proceedings - International Conference on Autonomic Computing
T2 - Proceedings - International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Y2 - 17 May 2004 through 18 May 2004
ER -