Paper Info
Title
A multi-agent protocol for service level agreement negotiation in cloud federations
Abstract
AbstractThe emergence of complex cloud services and the growing number of QoS metrics entail the need of automation to transform business requirements into QoS constraints. Furthermore, in the emergent context of Cloud Federations providers need to share knowledge to improve interoperability when negotiating SLA Service Level Agreements. Intelligent software agents are capable of supporting activities related to SLA negotiation, as well as sharing knowledge into large-scale distributed environments. Since they are usually provided with different ontologies, understanding the meaning of the messages requires the availability of common, global ontologies among customers and providers. In order to deal with this issue, we discuss a multi-agent SLA negotiation protocol which does not need a common global agent ontology. The protocol takes into account different concerns related to the understanding of semantic and technical terms, and the knowledge about the agent abilities on semantic and technical terms are shared among the Cloud Federation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1504/IJGUC.2016.077488
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
SLA, intelligent software agents, cloud computing, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, XaaS, semantic negotiation, protocol, JADE
Ontology (information science),Computer science,Service-level agreement,Knowledge management,Quality of service,Software agent,Software as a service,Multi-agent system,Business requirements,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
2
1741-847X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.58
25
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabrizio Messina136337.95
Giuseppe Pappalardo259563.41
Corrado Santoro349051.37
Domenico Rosaci477955.81
Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè551837.32