NSF Workshop on the Economics of Cloud Computing

公共云计算正在迅速成为我们信息化经济的基础。用户正在采用云平台，而不是维护专用的计算基础设施，这主要是因为节省了成本。由于云平台通过将基础设施出租给客户来利用其基础设施来赚取收入，如果基础设施处于闲置状态，则不会获得任何收入，因此它们的目标是最大化利用率。云市场的日益复杂给用户和提供商带来了新的研究挑战，而这些挑战本身就是经济的。该奖项将支持组织一个研讨会，将来自计算机系统和网络以及来自经济、金融和运筹学领域的研究人员聚集在一起，以确定未来5-10年经济学和云计算交叉领域的重要研究挑战。研讨会的研究议程有可能对美国和Beyond产生广泛和变革性的影响，在这个新兴领域培育一个新的跨学科社区，确定其关键研究挑战，并为未来提高云计算资源使用效率的创新奠定基础。此外，研讨会将邀请早期职业学者以及来自不同背景和代表性不足的群体，将他们与对经济学、计算机系统和网络的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，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.