Abstract
he Application Service Hosting Platform (ASHoP), as a realization of the utility computing vision, has recently received tremendous attention from both industry and academia. An ASHoP provides a shared and high performance platform to host multiple Application Services (ASes). The ASes are outsourced by Application Service Providers (ASPs) to save their own IT resources. Furthermore, ASHoP resources are allocated to the ASes in an ondemand fashion, so that resource supply always follows the...
