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The application of market mechanisms for the resource allocation of cloud computing services is a demanding task, which requires bridging economic and associated software agent technical challenges. Dynamic changes in the availability of resources over time makes the treatment more complicated. Here we employ an allocation mechanism and pricing mechanism as a market-based model to allocate resources...
With the development of services computing technology, more and more voluntary services have been available on the Internet. When using voluntary services, users tend to obtain higher QoS (e.g., get more computational resources to improve throughput of the services) than they actually need because there is no cost. To control QoS of the voluntary services appropriately, it is necessary to design resource...
A service provisioning system is examined, where a number of servers are used to offer different types of services to paying customers. A customer is charged for the execution of a stream of jobs; the number of jobs in the stream and the rate of their submission is specified. On the other hand, the provider promises a certain quality of service (QoS), measured by the average waiting time of the jobs...
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