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I. Breskovic, C. Haas, S. Caton, I. Brandic:
"Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets: A Monitoring Methodology (Best Student Paper Award)";
Talk: Ninth International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2011, Sydney, Australia; 12-12-2011 - 12-14-2011; in: "Proceedings of the IEEE Ninth International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2011", J. Chen, W. Dou, J. Liu, L. Yang, J. Ma (ed.); IEEE Computer Society, (2011), ISBN: 978-0-7695-4612-4; 81 - 88.

Currently, the Cloud landscape is a fragmented, static and shapeless market that hinders the paradigm´s ability to fulfil its promise of ubiquitous computing on tap and as a commodity. In this paper, we present our vision of an autonomic self-aware Cloud market platform, and argue that autonomic market platforms for Clouds can step up to the challenge of today´s status quo. As our first steps towards achieving this vision, we present a market monitoring methodology, which includes a series of realistic market goals, sets of extractable metrics from a market platform and how to map (i.e. combine and transform) metrics to access goal performance such that autonomic adaption of the market could be undertaken. We have extended a known market simulator for distributed infrastructures (GridSim) with relevant sensors. To demonstrate the usefulness of our approach, we simulate a sudden cease in demand for goods in our market
platform.

Cloud Markets, Market Monitoring, Selfawareness, Autonomic Computing

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DASC.2011.38

Project Head Ivona Brandic:
Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures