Agent-based cloud computing

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 564-577

  Sim, Kwang Mong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; multiagent systems; negotiation; resource management; service composition; service discovery; software agent

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; CLOUD SERVICES; CONSUMER AGENTS; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; COOPERATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION MECHANISM; NUMERICAL REASONING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MARKETS; SELECTING SERVICES; SERVICE CAPABILITY; SERVICE COMPOSITIONS; SERVICE DISCOVERY; SERVICE REQUIREMENTS; SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS; SIMILARITY REASONING;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCE; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEB SERVICES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84870870355     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2011.52     Document Type: Article

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