Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) Multi-agent System for Cloud Marketplace Negotiation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a BDI multi-agent system framework for cloud marketplaces, enabling autonomous negotiation and resource allocation among enterprises with trust and reputation mechanisms.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive BDI-based multi-agent framework for cloud resource negotiation, incorporating trust and reputation to improve autonomous decision-making.

Findings

Effective autonomous negotiation among agents demonstrated.

Reputation system enhances trustworthiness of agents.

Cost minimization achieved through collaborative negotiation.

Abstract

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.