Qualitative Economic Model for Long-Term IaaS Composition

We propose a new qualitative economic model based optimization approach to compose an optimal set of infrastructure service requests over a long-term period. The economic model is represented as a temporal CP-Net to capture the provider’s dynamic business strategies in qualitative service provisions. The multidimensional qualitative preferences are indexed in a k-d tree to compute the preference ranking of a set of incoming requests. We propose a heuristic based sequential optimization process to select the most preferred composition without the knowledge of historical request patterns. Experimental results prove the feasibility of the proposed approach.