An index policy for dynamic pricing in cloud computing under price commitments

DOI10.4064/AM2313-6-2017MaRDI QIDQ4595457zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 30 November 2017

Published in Applicationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4064/am2313-6-2017

zbMATH Keywords

cloud computingconstrained Markov decision processdynamic programmingiaasWhittle index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Dynamic programming (90C39) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Optimal stochastic control (93E20)

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