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Utility-Based Decision Making for Migrating Cloud-Based Applications

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Santiago Gómez Sáez,

Vasilios Andrikopoulos,

Marina Bitsaki,

André van HoornAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 18, Issue 2

Article No.: 22, Pages 1 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/3140545

Published: 02 February 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Nowadays, cloud providers offer a broad catalog of services for migrating and distributing applications in the cloud. However, the existence of a wide spectrum of cloud services has become a challenge for deciding where to host applications, as these vary in performance and cost. This work addresses such a challenge, and provides a utility-based decision support model and method that evaluates and ranks during design time potential application distributions spanned among heterogeneous cloud services. The utility model is evaluated using the MediaWiki (Wikipedia) application, and shows an improved efficiency for selecting cloud services in comparison to other decision making approaches.

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Index Terms

Utility-Based Decision Making for Migrating Cloud-Based Applications
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
      1. Cloud computing
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software design engineering

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 18, Issue 2

Special Issue on Internetware and Devops and Regular Papers

May 2018

294 pages

ISSN:1533-5399

EISSN:1557-6051

DOI:10.1145/3182619

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Published: 02 February 2018

Accepted: 01 September 2017

Revised: 01 August 2017

Received: 01 September 2016

Published in TOIT Volume 18, Issue 2

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