# An Agent-based Cloud Service Negotiation in Hybrid Cloud Computing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13109 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.13109/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 16 Jun 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [ABACUS: A FinOps Service for Cloud Cost Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.14753/) (2024)
- [Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) Multi-agent System for Cloud Marketplace Negotiation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.08468/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With the advent of evolution of cloud computing, large organizations have been scaling the on-premise IT infrastructure to the cloud. Although this being a popular practice, it lacks comprehensive efforts to study the aspects of automated negotiation of resources among cloud customers and providers. This paper proposes a full-fledged framework for the multi-party, multi-issue negotiation system for cloud resources. It introduces a robust cloud marketplace system to buy and sell cloud resources. The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model-based cloud customer and provider agents concurrently negotiate on multiple issues, pursuing a hybrid tactic of time and resource-based dynamic deadline algorithms to generate offers and counter-offers. The cloud marketplace-based system is further augmented with the assignment of behavior norm score and reputation index to the agents to establish trust among them.