Smart Cloud Marketplace - Agent-Based Platform for Trading Cloud Services

Abstract

Cloud computing makes our life easy by delivering computing resources as utility like telephony, water and gas. In cloud computing users should pay only for what they consumed. Nowadays, cloud service providers deliver a huge number of cloud services with almost the same features which makes the cloud services discovery and selection process as a big challenge for the end consumers. Using existing search engines results in a lot of unrelated outcome which increases the cloud service discovery and selection process time and effort. In this paper, we present an enhanced cloud services marketplace framework to facility the cloud services trading between providers and consumers and to make could services more visible for all consumers. Proposed framework receives users' requests as a voice commands or flat-text then translates them based on Natural Language Understanding technologies. In additional, we enhanced the matching algorithm by adding different weights for attributes based on consumer preferences. Experiments showed an enhancement in the overall user experience and better matching for user request.

Cloud Brokerage

“…Meeting Requirements [Chichin et al 2014] [Dastjerdi et al 2010] [Patiniotakis et al 2014] [Quarati et al 2016] [Yangui et al 2014] [Amato et al 2013b] [Anastasi et al 2017] [den Bossche et al 2013] [Javed et al 2016] [Michon et al 2017] [Pawluk et al 2012] [Weerasiri et al 2015] [Munteanu et al 2014] [Elkhatib et al 2013] [Aleksiev et al 2013] [Ferrer et al 2012] [Yang et al 2012] [Apduhan et al 2015] [Calheiros et al 2012] [Itani et al 2012] [Javadi et al 2012] [Jrad et al 2013] [Kertesz et al 2014] [Kim et al 2015] [Lucas-Simarro et al 2011] [Nair et al 2010] [Sharma et al 2015] [Desair et al 2013] [Paraiso et al 2014 [A a z a m a n d H u h 2 0 1 7 In the following, each category of motivation is described in detail. Dimensionality.…”

“…In view of this, the current process of manually selecting the optimal service can overwhelm a human decision maker. This challenge motivates the development of systems to support decision making [Aazam and Huh 2017;Amato et al 2013;Anastasi et al 2017;Chichin et al 2014;Dastjerdi et al 2010;den Bossche et al 2013;Javed et al 2016;Michon et al 2017;Patiniotakis et al 2014;Pawluk et al 2012;Quarati et al 2016;Weerasiri et al 2015;Yangui et al 2014].…”

“…Users ultimately make the decision and allocate resources. Examples of systems implementing this functionality include [Chichin et al 2014;Javed et al 2016;Jrad et al 2013;Patiniotakis et al 2014;Quarati et al 2016].…”

“…In this model, economic models form the matchmaking process between providers and consumers. The Smart Cloud Marketplace (SCM) [Chichin et al 2014] architecture consists of agents (e.g., market-agent, buyer-agent and selleragent) that perform the role of a cloud service exchange, making intelligent decisions on behalf of customers and providers. SCMs implement a variety of trading protocols such as fixed-price markets, negotiation, tendering, and auctions.…”