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Contributions to Books:

I. Breskovic, M. Maurer, V. Emeakaroha, I. Brandic, J. Altmann:
"Achieving Market Liquidity Through Autonomic Cloud Market Management";
in: "Cloud Computing and Services Science, Part 2, Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy", I. Ivanov, M. van Sinderen, B. Shishkov (ed.); Springer, New York, 2012, (invited), ISBN: 978-1-4614-2325-6, 91 - 107.



English abstract:
Due to the large variety in computing resources, Cloud markets often
suffer from a low probability of finding matches between consumers´ bids and providers´ asks, resulting in low market liquidity. The approach of service level agreement (SLA) templates (i.e., templates for electronic contracts) is a mean to reduce this variety as it channels the demand and supply. However, until now, the SLA templates used were static, not able to reflect changes in users´ requirements.
To address this shortcoming, we introduce an adaptive approach for automatically deriving public SLA templates based on the requirements of market participants. To achieve this goal, we utilize clustering algorithms for grouping similar requirements and learning methods for adapting the public SLA templates to observed changes of market conditions. To assess the benefits of the approach, we conduct a simulationbased evaluation and formalize a utility and cost model. Our results show that the use of clustering algorithms and learning algorithms improves the performance of the adaptive SLA template approach.

Keywords:
Service level agreement . SLA management . Electronic markets . Autonomic computing . Marketplace . Market environments


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2326-3_5



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


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