An open market for trading cloud services

The cloud computing model allows computing resources to be provided and accessed as services. That model has been widely accepted, and the increasing number of providers and consumers are forming a large-scale marketplace of cloud services. This thesis investigates the problem of automated cloud services trading where the primary resources, i.e. cloud infrastructure, are offered in a similar way to the trading of other utilities between buyers and sellers. In this work, we design single-sided and double-sided market mechanisms for trading homogeneous and heterogeneous cloud services and study their economic properties and the overall efficiency in theoretical and experimental investigations.