Consumer Preferences and Bid-Price Control for Cloud Services

Consumers have different preferences regarding Cloud services. Providers of Cloud services can be limited in their resource capacities or flexibility, and they are exposed to the challenge of how to sell their services efficiently. In this thesis both views are examined. A survey was conducted to understand the consumers\u27 perception of Revenue Management methods. For providers, a decision support policy is proposed to decide efficiently, when to accept or reject consumer requests