TY  - CONF
A1  - Dorsch, Christoph
A1  - Häckel, Björn
A2  - Huang, Ming-Hui
A2  - Piccoli, Gabe
A2  - Sambamurthy, Vallabh
T1  - Matching economic efficiency and environmental sustainability: the potential of exchanging excess capacity in cloud service environments
T2  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 16-19, 2012
N2  - Excess capacity is a major problem for service providers. While manufacturers e.g. can produce on stock to fully utilize their capacity, the service industry traditionally faces the problem of idle capacity resulting in economic and environmental inefficiencies. Recent technological developments offering dynamic information and integration capabilities may help, as they enable an on-demand exchange of excess capacity. To examine the possible benefits of corresponding excess capacity markets, we examine a capacity related optimization problem of a service provider with and without relying on excess capacity. Therefore we build a mathematical model based on queuing theory which is evaluated with a discrete-event simulation applying the situation of providers for banking transaction services. By solving the optimization problem we found reasonable benefits of excess capacity markets concerning the economic and environmental perspective. Being a first quantitative approach, the model thereby builds the basis for empirical validation and further theoretical research.
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/116249
UR  - https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2012/proceedings/GreenIS/10/
SN  - 978-0-615-71843-9
SP  - 1695
EP  - 1712
PB  - AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
CY  - New York, NY
ER  -