Towards Rigorous Selection and Configuration of Cloud Services: Research Methodology

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a major trend in
distributed computing. We proposed a platform for selecting and
configuring automatically an appropriate cloud environment that
meets a set of consumer and provider requirements. It can easily
adapt its behavior, either at design-time or runtime, to the change
of the environment in matters of location, time, activity,
interaction abilities, and communication restrictions. The
platform based on the principles of dynamic software product
lines (SPL), Agent-oriented software engineering, and the
MAPE-k reference model. We based on the Design Science
Research Methodology to conduct this work. In this article, we
present the steps of our research following this methodology’s
guidelines.