Research Article

An In-depth Benchmarking of Evolutionary and Swarm Intelligence Algorithms for Autoscaling Parameter Sweep Applications on Public Clouds

Table 9

RPD-oriented metric values obtained for applications MPG and GMS. For all metrics, positive values represent favorable results (savings respecting MOEA-NSGA-III).

ApplicationSizeAutoscalerMakespan RPD (%)Cost RPD (%)Task failures RPD (%)

MPG30MOEA-SMPSO−58.108.19−100.00
MOEA-SMS-EMOA1.65−60.23100.00
MOEA-E-NSGA-III2.4611.11100.00
100MOEA-SMPSO−54.90−135.59−100.00
MOEA-SMS-EMOA−57.47−175.450.00
MOEA-E-NSGA-III10.9014.860.00
300MOEA-SMPSO17.7719.28−195.00
MOEA-SMS-EMOA−25.24−69.565.00
MOEA-E-NSGA-III16.5618.18100.00

GMS30MOEA-SMPSO−32.4414.112.05
MOEA-SMS-EMOA3.78−28.07−23.97
MOEA-E-NSGA-III2.1923.5036.76
100MOEA-SMPSO−35.306.88−61.20
MOEA-SMS-EMOA−5.66−32.0751.80
MOEA-E-NSGA-III10.375.5754.36
300MOEA-SMPSO−32.506.97−203.20
MOEA-SMS-EMOA−32.73−40.27−89.36
MOEA-E-NSGA-III10.1115.5233.99

indicate the best value.