A decision maxim for efficient task realization within analytical network infrastructures

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Highlights:

• Conceptualization of a flexible architecture model for analytical infrastructures

• Development of a heuristic task realization approach that aims for the efficient usage of given resources for the processing of analytical tasks within network structures

• Establishment of a procedure model to transfer dynamic, real-world scenarios to computer simulations

• Implementation of a computational simulation and comparison of 36 task realization strategies in a 4-system-scenario

• Analysis, benchmark, interpretation and selection of best task realization strategies, which proofs the working of the new task realization approach

摘要

Faced with the increasing needs of companies, optimal dimensioning of IT hardware is becoming challenging for decision makers. In terms of analytical infrastructures, a highly evolutionary environment causes volatile, time-dependent workloads in its components, and intelligent, flexible task distribution between local systems and cloud services is attractive. With the aim of developing a flexible and efficient design for analytical infrastructures, this paper proposes a flexible architecture model, which allocates tasks following a machine-specific decision heuristic. A simulation benchmarks this system with existing strategies and identifies the new decision maxim as superior in a first scenario-based simulation.

论文关键词:Analytics,Architecture concepts,Cyber-physical systems,Internet of things,Task realization strategies,Simulation

论文评审过程:Received 18 January 2018, Revised 18 June 2018, Accepted 18 June 2018, Available online 21 June 2018, Version of Record 14 July 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2018.06.005