NSF Workshop on the Economics of Cloud Computing

NSF 云计算经济学研讨会

• 批准号: 1821682
• 负责人: David Irwin
• 金额: $ 9.06万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821682&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Workshop; Economics; Cloud; Computing

Public cloud computing is rapidly becoming the foundation of our information-based economy. Users areadopting cloud platforms in lieu of maintaining dedicated computing infrastructure primarily due to theresulting savings in costs. Since cloud platforms earn revenue from utilizing their infrastructure byrenting it out to customers, and earn no revenue if their infrastructure is idle, their goal is to maximizeutilization. The increasing complexity of cloud markets raises new researchchallenges for both users and providers that are inherently economic. This award will support theorganization of a workshop to bring together researchers from computer systems and networks and fromthe fields of economics, finance, and operations research to define important research challenges at theintersection of economics and cloud computing over the next 5-10 years.The research agenda of the workshop has the potential for broad and transformative impact on the US andbeyond by fostering a new interdisciplinary community in this nascent area, identifying its key researchchallenges, and laying the foundation for future innovations that increase the efficiency of using cloudcomputing resources. Furthermore, the workshop will engage early career scholars and those fromdiverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups to connect them with a broad community of academicand industrial researchers interested in the intersection of economics and computer systems andnetworking.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

公共云计算正在迅速成为我们信息经济的基础。用户正在采用云平台，而不是维护专用的计算基础设施，主要是因为这样可以节省成本。由于云平台通过将其基础设施出租给客户来利用其基础设施来赚取收入，并且如果其基础设施闲置则不赚取收入，因此他们的目标是最大化利用率。云计算市场日益复杂，为用户和提供商带来了新的研究挑战，这些挑战本质上是经济的。该奖项将支持组织一个研讨会，汇集来自计算机系统和网络以及经济，金融，和运筹学，以确定未来5年内经济学和云计算交叉点的重要研究挑战-10年。研讨会的研究议程通过培养一个新的跨学科社区，有可能对美国及其他地区产生广泛的变革性影响。在这个新兴领域，确定其关键的研究挑战，并为未来的创新奠定基础，提高云计算资源的使用效率。此外，该研讨会将吸引早期职业学者和来自不同背景和代表性不足的群体，将他们与对经济学和计算机系统和网络交叉感兴趣的广泛的学术和工业研究人员社区联系起来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。