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Agent-based Cloud service composition

Sim, Kwang Mong, Gutierrez-Garcia, J. Octavio (2013) Agent-based Cloud service composition. Applied Intelligence, 38 (3). pp. 436-464. ISSN 0924-669X. E-ISSN 1573-7497. (doi:10.1007/s10489-012-0380-x) (KAR id:32021)

Abstract

Service composition in multi-Cloud environments

must coordinate self-interested participants, automate

service selection, (re)configure distributed services, and deal

with incomplete information about Cloud providers and

their services. This work proposes an agent-based approach

to compose services in multi-Cloud environments for different

types of Cloud services: one-time virtualized services,

e.g., processing a rendering job, persistent virtualized services,

e.g., infrastructure-as-a-service scenarios, vertical services,

e.g., integrating homogenous services, and horizontal

services, e.g., integrating heterogeneous services. Agents

are endowed with a semi-recursive contract net protocol and

service capability tables (information catalogs about Cloud

participants) to compose services based on consumer requirements.

Empirical results obtained from an agent-based

testbed show that agents in this work can: successfully compose

services to satisfy service requirements, autonomously

select services based on dynamic fees, effectively cope with

constantly changing consumers’ service needs that trigger

updates, and compose services in multiple Clouds even with

incomplete information about Cloud participants.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/s10489-012-0380-x
Uncontrolled keywords: Agent-based Cloud computing · Autonomous agents · Cloud computing · Cloud resource management · Cloud service composition · Multiagent systems
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General) > Q335 Artificial intelligence
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Kwang Mong Sim
Date Deposited: 29 Oct 2012 14:56 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Jul 2023 09:17 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/32021 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Sim, Kwang Mong.

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