Economic Models for Managing Cloud Services

• Main Authors: Mistry, Sajib (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bouguettaya, Athman (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dong, Hai (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Application software.; Management information systems.; Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Computer Communication Networks.

The authors introduce both the quantitative and qualitative economic models as optimization tools for the selection of long-term cloud service requests. The economic models fit almost intuitively in the way business is usually done and maximize the profit of a cloud provider for a long-term period....

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Cloud Service Composition: The State of the Art
• 3 Long-term IaaS Composition for Deterministic Requests
• 4 Long-term IaaS Composition for Stochastic Requests
• 5 Long-term Qualitative IaaS Composition
• 6 Service Providers' Long-term QoS Prediction Model
• 7 Conclusion.