Title:
Game Theory in Cloud Service Research |
Abstract:
Cloud services in general have experienced a decade of explosive growth, eliminating barriers in reaching users and enabling real-time interchanges and intelligence. Cloud services are increasingly embedded in the day-to-day activities of businesses and consumers. Due to the evolution in cloud business models, new issues are surfacing to challenge practitioners and scholars, and some of them can be adequately addressed with game theory. In this talk, I attempt to fill this important gap. I use a trending framework and cover various themes in cloud service pricing, product, and operations. For each theme, we review past work that has been instrumental in setting the direction of this line of research and discuss how emerging research opportunities can be addressed. I conclude by describing promising directions on a roadmap for future research and explain why the use of game theory could build an integrative perspective of cloud service research.
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