To attract more customers, a cloud provider tends to give some discounts to a customer if
he/she rents a plenty of resources. Under this situation, a group of customers who need …

Cloud manufacturing (CMfg) can make mass manufacturing resources more widely
accessible to clients in the form of manufacturing services with their available time slots and …

In cloud computing, multiple cloud providers can cooperate to establish a resource pool to
support internal users and to offer services to public cloud users. In this paper, we study the …

In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial auction-based market model to enable Cloud
Service Providers (CSPs) to satisfy complex user requirements collaboratively, where the …

As a major driving force for adopting cloud computing, continuous cost reduction has been
constantly pursued by cloud users. For a group of users with heterogeneous cloud resource …

Cloud computing is a new trend after grids. The resource allocation in such dynamic
environments presents numerous challenges. Unfortunately, the maximisation of accepted …

Cloud federation has been proposed as a new paradigm that allows providers to avoid the
limitation of owning only restricted amount of resources. Multiple cloud providers can …

Having received significant attention in the industry, the cloud market is nowadays fiercely
competitive with many cloud providers. On one hand, cloud providers compete against each …

Resource allocation is one of the main influential factors to provide efficient and economical
processing of resources in the infrastructure as a service Clouds. While there are many …

Cloud providers can form cloud federations by pooling their resources together to balance
their loads, reduce their costs, and manage demand spikes. However, forming cloud …