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A market-oriented dynamic collaborative cloud services platform

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Currently, interoperability and scalability are two major challenging issues for cloud computing. Forming a dynamic collaboration (DC) platform among cloud providers (CPs) can help to better address these issues. A DC platform can facilitate expense reduction, avoiding adverse business impacts and offering collaborative or portable cloud services to consumers. However, there are two major challenges involved in this undertaking; one is to find an appropriate market model to enable a DC platform, and the other one is to minimize conflicts among CPs that may occur in a market-oriented DC platform. In this paper, we present a novel combinatorial auction (CA)-based cloud market (CACM) model that enables a DC platform in CPs. To minimize conflicts among CPs, a new auction policy is proposed that allows a CP to dynamically collaborate with suitable partner CPs to form groups and publishes their group bids as a single bid to compete in the auction. However, identifying a suitable combination of CP partners to form the group and reduce conflicts is a NP-hard problem. Hence, we propose a promising multi-objective (MO) optimization model for partner selection using individual information and past collaborative relationship information, which is seldom considered. A multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) called MOGA-IC is proposed to solve the MO optimization problem. This algorithm is developed using two popular MOGAs, the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) and the strength pareto evolutionary genetic algorithm (SPEA2). The experimental results show that MOGA-IC with NSGA-II outperformed the MOGA-IC with SPEA2 in identifying useful pareto-optimal solution sets. Other simulation experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the MOGA-IC in terms of satisfactory partner selection and conflict minimization in the CACM model. In addition, the performance of the CACM model was compared to the existing CA model in terms of economic efficiency.

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This work is supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2010-(C1090-1011-0001)).Corresponding author is Eui-Nam Huh.

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Hassan, M.M., Song, B. & Huh, EN. A market-oriented dynamic collaborative cloud services platform. Ann. Telecommun. 65, 669–688 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-010-0184-0

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