Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) Multi-agent System for Cloud Marketplace Negotiation
This addresses cloud marketplace efficiency for enterprises, but appears incremental as it builds on existing BDI agent concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of automated cloud resource negotiation by proposing a Belief-Desire-Intention multi-agent system framework, where agents autonomously negotiate and consult via a Master Negotiation Clearing House to minimize enterprise costs.
With the evolution of cloud computing, there has been a rise of large enterprises extending their infrastructure and workloads into the public cloud. This paper proposes a full-fledged framework for a Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) multi-agent-based cloud marketplace system for cloud resources. Each party in the cloud marketplace system supports a BDI agent for autonomous decision making and negotiation to facilitate automated buying and selling of resources. Additionally, multiple BDI agents from an enterprise competing for the same cloud resource can consult with each other via Master Negotiation Clearing House to minimize the overall cost function for the enterprise while negotiating for a cloud resource. The cloud marketplace system is further augmented with assignments of behavior norm and reputation index to the agents to facilitate trust among them.