A Framework for Building Intelligent SLA Negotiation Strategies under Time Constraints

Silaghi, Gheorghe Cosmin; Şerban, Liviu Dan; Litan, Cristian Marius

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15681-6_4

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“…Automated negotiation has been widely studied in the literature (see e.g. [232,233,234,235,236,237,238]). Generally, a negotiation mechanism has three main components [239,233]: 1) the set of possible outcomes; 2) negotiation protocol that defines the rules for the negotiation; 3) the negotiation strategies of the participants that, given the set of possible outcomes and the negotiation protocol, define how the agents decide about their actions during the negotiation.…”

Section: B Decision Making and Negotiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Autonomy and Intelligence in the Computing Continuum: Challenges, Enablers, and Future Directions for Orchestration

Kokkonen¹,

Lovén²,

Motlagh³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Future AI applications require performance, reliability, and privacy that the existing, cloud-dependant system architectures cannot provide. In this article, we study orchestration in the device-edge-cloud continuum, and focus on AI for edge, that is, the AI methods used in resource orchestration. We claim that to support the constantly growing requirements of intelligent applications in the device-edge-cloud computing continuum, resource orchestration needs to embrace edge AI and emphasize local autonomy and intelligence. To justify the claim, we provide a general definition for continuum orchestration, and look at how current and emerging orchestration paradigms are suitable for the computing continuum. We describe certain major emerging research themes that may affect future orchestration, and provide an early vision of an orchestration paradigm that embraces those research themes. Finally, we survey current key edge AI methods and look at how they may contribute into fulfilling the vision of future continuum orchestration.

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Section: B Decision Making and Negotiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Autonomy and Intelligence in the Computing Continuum: Challenges, Enablers, and Future Directions for Orchestration

Kokkonen¹,

Lovén²,

Motlagh³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…Much of the current SLA research is technology-focused. For instance, many contributions aim to enable or improve automatic SLA negotiation between "intelligent" autonomous agents on interactive market places [23,26]. Another strand of research addresses how service providers can maximize profits within the constraints imposed by the service levels [1,4,11].…”

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Risks and assets: a qualitative study of a software ecosystem in the mining industry

Olsson

Franke

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 27th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of

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Digitalization and servitization are impacting many domains, including the mining industry. As the equipment becomes connected and technical infrastructure evolves, business models and risk management need to adapt. In this paper, we present a study on how changes in asset and risk distribution are evolving for the actors in a software ecosystem (SECO) and system-of-systems (SoS) around a mining operation. We have performed a survey to understand how Service Level Agreements (SLAs) -a common mechanism for managing risk -are used in other domains. Furthermore, we have performed a focus group study with companies. There is an overall trend in the mining industry to move the investment cost (CAPEX) from the mining operator to the vendors. Hence, the mining operator instead leases the equipment (as operational expense, OPEX) or even acquires a service. This change in business model impacts operation, as knowledge is moved from the mining operator to the suppliers. Furthermore, as the infrastructure becomes more complex, this implies that the mining operator is more and more reliant on the suppliers for the operation and maintenance. As this change is still in an early stage, there is no formalized risk management, e.g. through SLAs, in place. Rather, at present, the companies in the ecosystem rely more on trust and the incentives created by the promise of mutual future benefits of innovation activities. We believe there is a need to better understand how to manage risk in SECO as it is established and evolves. At the same time, in a SECO, the focus is on cooperation and innovation, the companies do not have incentives to address this unless there is an incident. Therefore, industry need, we believe, help in systematically understanding risk and defining quality aspects such as reliability and performance in the new business environment. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Automation; • Software and its engineering → Risk management.

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“…A mutual negotiation protocol applying an alternative offers model for resource allocation and scheduling in Grid-Federation as well as a multi-steps SLA negotiation, that includes the cloud SP selection and the negotiation with the chosen SP are addressed in [53] and [7] respectively. To develop a general framework for strategic negotiation of service level values under time limitations, the latest developments in agent research are studied in [99]. Another study proposed a methodology which aims to appraise the service performance at early stages of the development process using simulation.…”

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Guidelines to SLA modeling and establishment in heterogeneous communications networks

Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Santos-Boada

Sole-Pareta

et al. 2019

2019 21st International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)

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The question of how to specify, provide and measure service quality for network end-users has been of utmost interest for service and network infrastructure providers and their clients as well. The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a beneficial tool in formalizing the interrelationships resulting from a negotiation among all participating actors with the target of achieving a common comprehension concerning delivery of services, its priorities, quality, responsibilities, and other relevant parameters. A horizontal SLA is an agreement between two service-providers existing at the same architectural layer (as for example two Internet Protocol (IP) or two Optical Transport Network (OTN) domains). A vertical SLA is an agreement between two individual providers at two different architectural layers (for instance, between an optical network and the core MPLS network). A service has to be defined without ambiguity utilizing Service Level Specifications (SLS) and three information types must be described: i) The QoX metrics as well as their corresponding thresholds; ii) A method of service performance measurement; iii) Service schedule. In this work we present preliminary simulation results that enable the development of a generic methodology for SLA modeling and establishment that will lead to a win-win situation for all involved actors. As an example, we put special attention in the benefits obtained by Optical Networks operators.

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A Framework for Building Intelligent SLA Negotiation Strategies under Time Constraints

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Autonomy and Intelligence in the Computing Continuum: Challenges, Enablers, and Future Directions for Orchestration

Autonomy and Intelligence in the Computing Continuum: Challenges, Enablers, and Future Directions for Orchestration

Risks and assets: a qualitative study of a software ecosystem in the mining industry

Guidelines to SLA modeling and establishment in heterogeneous communications networks

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