Semantic- and preference-based planning of cloud service templates

US8756323B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michael Behrendt · Randersacker, DE
• Benjamin Blau · Karlsruhe, DE
• Gerd Breiter · Wildberg, DE
• Steffen Haak · Karlsruhe, DE
• Rudi Studer · Karlsruhe, DE
• Clemens van Dinther · Karlsruhe, DE
• Christof Weinhardt · Karlsruhe, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 2011
• Grant date: Jun 17, 2014
• Expiry date: May 30, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/5061
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A mechanism is provided for evaluating a service based on a request for the service. At least one attribute, having at least one preference parameter, is assigned to at least one generic configuration, the at least one generic configuration comprising at least one resource. A request is received for the service having an assigned quality-of-service-value, and a respective preference parameter value is assigned to each of the at least one preference parameters based on the quality-of-service-value. Furthermore, a combination of the resources is selected based on the request, the combination of the resources forming a selected configuration. Additionally, the selected configuration is mapped to one of the at least one of the generic configurations and the at least one preference parameter of the at least one attributes of the mapped at least one of the generic configurations is mapped to the selected configuration.