Developing an Elastic Cloud Computing Application through Multi-Agent Systems
Ali Reza Honarvar · International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing · 2013
the integration of a multi-agent environment and a cloud platform is to the best of our knowledge a new concept in terms of elastic application to run on cloud platforms. Currently in literature can be found some works focused on merging cloud computing and multi-agent systems (MAS). These works focused on the using of clouds in MAS because MASs often require high-performance computing systems and large data storage devices, or using agents on cloud i.e. Providing agent-based solutions founded on the design and development of software agents for improving Cloud resources and service management and discovery. Scalability is an important issue in the successful deployment of cloud computing software since performance requirements can change over time. Therefore, it is often expected that the software can be scaled up or down to ensure the desired performance at minimal costs. In this paper a framework was proposed which can be used as a foundation for developing an application that uses resources elastically on the cloud. This framework which provides elastic resource provision to applications is based on the MAS.