Agent-based cloud computing is concerned with the design and development of software
agents for bolstering cloud service discovery, service negotiation, and service composition …

Context In recent years, various complex and similar-function cloud services with different
quality of service features are offered in services pool. Such diversity of services complicates …

Abstract Service composition in multi-Cloud environments must coordinate self-interested
participants, automate service selection,(re) configure distributed services, and deal with …

Cloud computing can provide critical services for business management, reducing IT costs
and maintenance costs of hardware and software effectively. In the meanwhile, it can enable …

Cloud computing allows customers to dynamically scale their applications, software
platforms, and hardware infrastructures according to negotiated Service Level Agreements …

Cloud service selection in a multi-cloud computing environment is receiving more and more
attentions. There is an abundance of emerging cloud service resources that makes it hard …

In Cloud service composition, collaboration between brokers and service providers is
essential to promptly satisfy incoming Cloud consumer requirements. These requirements …

To date, most of the existing bargaining models are designed for supporting negotiation in
only one market involving only two types of participants (buyers and sellers). This work …

In a Cloud computing environment, the dynamic configuration of a personalized collection of
resources often requires Cloud participants (consumers, brokers, and providers) to establish …

Mobile cloud computing has the features of resource constraints, openness, and uncertainty
which leads to the high uncertainty on its quality of service (QoS) provision and serious …