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,
represents the first online combinatorial auction designed in the cloud computing paradigm,
which is general and expressive enough to both (a) optimize system efficiency across the
temporal domain instead of at an isolated time point, and (b) model dynamic provisioning of
heterogeneous Virtual Machine (VM) types in practice. The final result is an online auction …

Auction mechanisms have recently attracted substantial attention as an efficient approach to
pricing and allocating resources in cloud computing. This work, to the authors' knowledge,
represents the first online combinatorial auction designed for the cloud computing paradigm,
which is general and expressive enough to both: 1) optimize system efficiency across the
temporal domain instead of at an isolated time point; and 2) model dynamic provisioning of
heterogeneous virtual machine (VM) types in practice. The final result is an online auction …