@INPROCEEDINGS{Chen2011, 
author={Xi Chen and Haopeng Chen and Qing Zheng and Wenting Wang and Guodong Liu}, 
booktitle={Cloud and Service Computing (CSC), 2011 International Conference on}, title={Characterizing web application performance for maximizing service providers' profits in clouds}, 
year={2011}, 
month={dec.}, 
volume={}, 
number={}, 
pages={191 -198}, 
keywords={CloudSim;SLA;Web application;cloud technique;predictive performance model;profit driven model;resource management;service level agreement;service provider profit;Web services;cloud computing;}, 
doi={10.1109/CSC.2011.6138519}, 
ISSN={},}