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Voting for Superior Services: How to Exploit Cloud Hierarchies

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Abstract

Cloud architecture spreads services throughout several levels from user-close edge to deep cloud, and while this allocation of resources offers versatility and power, it also presents a challenge: where should each aspect of the service be located? Related to this question is, who should decide? A user-centric approach would invite input from the user, and our model allows users to formulate preferences and submit these to the operator through a voting process wherein they express their preferences for the quality of the services they use. The outcome of the vote is a selection of services and related quality levels which receive preferential treatment.

This process is distinctive in that it operates with only partial information, which may be as much information that can be reasonably obtained. At the same time, it blends well with information that an operator can collect, statically or in realtime, for the user as well as from content and/or application providers.

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This work was supported by the Canadian Tri-Council Research Support Fund. Authors were each supported by their own individual NSERC Discovery Grants.

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  1. INRS-EMT, Montréal, QC, Canada

    J.-Ch. Grégoire

  2. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Angèle M. Foley

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  1. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Karim Djemame

  2. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Jörn Altmann

  3. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    José Ángel Bañares

  4. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda

  5. LUMSA University, Rome, Italy

    Maurizio Naldi

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Grégoire, JC., Foley, A.M. (2019). Voting for Superior Services: How to Exploit Cloud Hierarchies. In: Djemame, K., Altmann, J., Bañares, J., Agmon Ben-Yehuda, O., Naldi, M. (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. GECON 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36027-6_6

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