Agent-based cloud service composition

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 436-464

  Gutierrez Garcia, J Octavio ^a   Sim, Kwang Mong ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based Cloud computing; Autonomous agents; Cloud computing; Cloud resource management; Cloud service composition; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED APPROACH; CLOUD SERVICE COMPOSITIONS; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; HETEROGENEOUS SERVICES; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUALIZED SERVICES;

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84876193405     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-012-0380-x     Document Type: Article

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