BPaaS placement over optimum cloud availability zones.

Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) has recently emerged from the synergy between business process management and cloud computing, allowing companies to outsource and migrate their businesses to the cloud. BPaaS management refers to the set of operations (decomposition, customization, placement, etc.) that maintain a high-quality of the deployed cloud-based businesses. Like its ancestor SaaS, BPaaS placement consists on the dispersion of its composing fragments over multiple cloud availability zones (CAZ). These latter are characterized by their huge, diverse and dynamic data, which are exploited to select the high-performance servers holding BPaaS fragments, while preserving their constraints. These fragments' relations and their placement schemes constitute a dynamic BPaaS information network. However, the few existing BPaaS solutions adopt a static placement strategy, while it is important to take the CAZ dynamic and uncertain nature into account. Also, current solutions do not properly model the BPaaS environment. To offer an efficient BPaaS placement scheme, we combine prediction and learning capabilities, which will help identify the migrating fragments and their new hosting servers. We first model the BPaaS context as a heterogeneous information network. Then, we apply an incremental representation learning approach to facilitate its processing. Using the principles of proximity-aware representation learning, we infer useful knowledge regarding BPaaS fragments and the available servers at different CAZ. Finally based on the degree of closeness between the BPaaS environment's entities (e.g., fragments, servers), we select the optimum cloud availability zone on which the resource-consuming BPaaS fragments are migrated based on a proposed placement scheme. Obtained results were very promising compared to traditional BPaaS placement solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]