A heuristic for security prioritized resource provisioning in cloud computing

Cloud computing is the hottest buzzword today having enormous benefits, but there remains a number of critical problems (Security, Privacy, Interoperability, Costing, etc.) preventing their wider adoption. For each job/application, Cloud resource provisioning is a cumbersome task as a number of objectives needs to be satisfied with certain constraints. This work proposes security prioritized resource provisioning based on L_p metric and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) which considers both qualitative and quantitative properties in an efficient manner.