Jan 18: thesis meeting with Kurt Vanmechelen

Jan 01-17: Elaboration on price discovery

Elaboration on price discovery mechanisms, wrote first parts of the thesis. Completed prototype port to Spring.

Dec 15 - Dec 31: focus on other school projects

Some other school projects needed some of my time. No progress on thesis.

Dec 9 ~ Dec 15: learning the Spring library

Learned about Spring Library: can potentially speed up prototype development significantly (especially the good integration with JAX-WS seems interesting).

Ported prototype to spring (not completly done yet); uses webservices

Document with some the issues I resolved: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1HtfPLwqVHO8J3R-s1qBfFWMfF8Ve5fAp9y1jzuniztw

Wednesday, Dec 8: thesis meeting with Kurt Vanmechelen

Discussion results elaboration on research internship: Desktop Clouds: CDA

A first (more elaborate) CDA prototype based on these thoughts

Integration with thesis: combining CDA with CRA

Powerpoint presentation with overview: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2ZFuPHiC22wN2UyNzYyYjktMDdhYi00YTgxLTg0YWUtNzZjN2MwMGE4NTJm&hl=en_GB


Nov 18 - Dec 7: Elaboration on research internship + possibly integration with thesis

Wednesday, Nov 17: thesis meeting with Kurt Vanmechelen

Discussion Initial implementation of CRA, although some issues remain; some of the concepts are probably useful. Constraint mechanism seems sufficient.

Some initial ideas about price discovery

Meeting preparations: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1rgNwbfAUr4eQJQQp6QBZpcBoZf0FLBCfX609bQmowH4


Oct 29 - Nov 16: Initial implementation of CRA

Thursday, Oct 28: thesis meeting with Kurt Vanmechelen

Maybe CDA not such a good idea (primarily caused by heterogeneity of providers), use something like a Reverse Auction instead? First ideas concerning CRA (Continuous Reverse Auction).

Initial implementation (prototype) of constraint mechanism

Meeting preparations: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ey5vzpeaJwWkAAhIHhtD-6e93J_mdZ-ku0mSARRQKGQ

Wednesday, Oct 27: thesis meeting with Kurt Vanmechelen

Further elaborated on prototype

Difficulties with heterogeneity of providers became more apparent. An elaborate constraint mechanism will needed.
Meeting preparations:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1QAfRwRgOXDOVnk-8aR8KERUZjh513RKv99SuEPMd9-Y

Wednesday, Oct 18: thesis meeting with Kurt Van Mechelen

Completed initial literature study

Some Initial thoughts on http://thesisjorisroovers.blogspot.com/

Explored the concept of CDA for clouds + prototype implementation of CDA

Wednesday, Oct 6: first thesis meeting with Kurt Vanmechelen

General Discussion: Markets, Market Principles, Auctions, CDA, Bidding language

First thesis outline: http://thesisjorisroovers.blogspot.com/2010/10/past-2-weeks.html

Wednesday, Sept 29: first contact by email with Kurt Vanmechelen

Literature:

Cloud providers