The rapid growth of the cloud industry has increased challenges in the proper governance of
the cloud infrastructure. Many intelligent systems have been developing, considering …

Data center power consumption is among the largest commodity expenditures for many
organizations. Reduction of power used in cloud data centres with heterogeneous physical …

Auction-style pricing policies can effectively reflect the underlying trends in demand and
supply for the cloud resources, and thereby attracted a research interest recently. In …

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) uses auction-based spot pricing to sell spare
capacity, allowing users to bid for cloud resources at a highly reduced rate. Amazon sets the …

In this article, we address the resource allocation and monetization challenges in Mobile
Edge Computing (MEC) systems, where users have heterogeneous demands and compete …

The cloud provides low-cost and flexible IT resources (hardware and software) across the
Internet. As more cloud providers seek to drive greater business outcomes and the …

Auction mechanisms have recently attracted substantial attention as an efficient approach to
pricing and resource allocation in cloud computing. This work, to the authors' knowledge …

Cloud providers provision their various resources such as CPUs, memory, and storage in
the form of virtual machine (VM) instances which are then allocated to the users. The users …

Provisioning of appropriate resources to cloud workloads depends on the Quality of Service
(QoS) requirements of cloud workloads. Based on application requirements of cloud users …

In this paper, to address the issue of demand response in the smart grid with island
MicroGrids (MGs), we introduce an effective and secure auction market that allows electric …