Framework of Resource Management for Intercloud Computing

There has been a very rapid increase in digital media content, due to which media cloud is gaining importance. Cloud computing paradigm provides management of resources and helps create extended portfolio of services. Through cloud computing, not only are services managed more efficiently, but also service discovery is made possible. To handle rapid increase in the content, media cloud plays a very vital role. But it is not possible for standalone clouds to handle everything with the increasing user demands. For scalability and better service provisioning, at times, clouds have to communicate with other clouds and share their resources. This scenario is called Intercloud computing or cloud federation. The study on Intercloud computing is still in its start. Resource management is one of the key concerns to be addressed in Intercloud computing. Already done studies discuss this issue only in a trivial and simplistic way. In this study, we present a resource management model, keeping in view different types of services, different customer types, customer characteristic, pricing, and refunding. The presented framework was implemented using Java and NetBeans 8.0 and evaluated using CloudSim 3.0.3 toolkit. Presented results and their discussion validate our model and its efficiency.

Research on the Customer Characteristic-Driven Innovative Design Method for Glasses

The customer characteristic-driven innovative design method for glasses was described. A pair of glasses is a special product that should provide not only the perfect functions but also the “aesthetic emotion”. Thinking of these needs of users, the physiological characteristics were extracted from the user’s measurement data of head and face, and the psychological characteristics were identified based on user’s perceptual evaluation experiments at first. Secondly, the mathematical descriptions of different glasses components could be established to form the “component product families”. And then, the corresponding components of “product family” could be identified and selected based on the user’s features, and the product layout of the whole glasses could be achieved by the visual-interactive optimization method.