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The Comparison of Pricing Schemes for Cloud Services

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Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 301))

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This paper investigates subscription pricing, pay-per-use pricing, and two-part tariff from perspectives of a provider’s profit, consumer surplus, and social welfare, respectively. In particular, this paper extends previous studies on pricing schemes to two-part tariff in addition to subscription pricing and pay-per-use pricing. This paper shows that two-part tariff is more efficient than the other two pricing from a provider’s, consumers’ and social point of view.

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This work was supported by Seoul National University of Science and Technology.

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  1. Department of Business Administration, School of Business and Technology, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 172 Gongreung 2-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 139-743, South Korea

    Se-Hak Chun

  2. Industry and Strategy Department, Samsung Economic Research Institute, 1321-15, Seocho 2-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 137-955, South Korea

    Byong-Sam Choi

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Hallym University, 1 Hallym Daehak Gil, Chuncheon, Kangwon-Do, South Korea

    Young-Woong Ko

  4. Department of Liberal Arts, School of Humanity and Social Science, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 172 Gongreung 2-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 139-743, South Korea

    Soon-Hak Hwang

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Albert Zomaya

  3. Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Hwa-Young Jeong

  4. Computer Science & Software Engineering, Monmouth University, W. Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

    Mohammad Obaidat

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Chun, SH., Choi, BS., Ko, YW., Hwang, SH. (2014). The Comparison of Pricing Schemes for Cloud Services. In: Park, J., Zomaya, A., Jeong, HY., Obaidat, M. (eds) Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8798-7_94

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