Research Article
A Conceptual Framework for Simulating Autonomic Cloud Markets
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-03874-2_10, author={Simon Caton and Ivan Breskovic and Ivona Brandic}, title={A Conceptual Framework for Simulating Autonomic Cloud Markets}, proceedings={Cloud Computing. Third International Conference, CloudComp 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 24-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={CLOUDCOMP}, year={2014}, month={6}, keywords={Cloud Computing Electronic Markets Autonomic Computing Computational Economics Market Simulation}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-03874-2_10} }- Simon Caton
Ivan Breskovic
Ivona Brandic
Year: 2014
A Conceptual Framework for Simulating Autonomic Cloud Markets
CLOUDCOMP
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03874-2_10
Abstract
One of the major challenges facing the Cloud paradigm is the emergence of suitable economic platforms for the trading of Cloud services. Today, many researchers investigate how specific Cloud market platforms can be conceived and in some cases implemented. However, such endeavours consider only specific types of actors, business models, or Cloud abstractions. We argue that market platforms for the Cloud paradigm cannot (yet) be rigidly defined, and require the ability to progress and evolve with the paradigm. In this paper, we discuss an alternative approach: autonomic markets. Autonomic markets automatically adapt to changed environmental conditions based upon a given concept of “performance”. We describe the autonomic MAPE loop in the context of electronic markets and consider the types of a knowledge produced and required for decision making. Finally, we present a conceptual framework for a market simulator, a critical tool for autonomic markets, based upon experiences using the GridSim simulation tool.
