Multi-agent Approach for Managing Workflows in an Inter-Cloud Environment

Despite the several attractive features that offers the cloud technology, managing, controlling processes and resources are among the serious obstacles that cloud service providers need to overcome. These issues increase when cloud providers intend to exploit services from several distributed platforms to satisfy client’s requests and requirements. At this moment, they need to deal with some critical problems like heterogeneity, collaboration, coordination and communication between different types of participants.

In another side, the most known properties of an agent are: autonomy, pro-activity, cooperation and mobility. These features are attractive and have a great importance to design and implement software systems that operate in distributed and open environments such like cloud and grid. Our main goal through this thesis is to propose an approach and architectures to permit the integration of cloud/grid and multi-agent systems concepts and technologies for managing workflows in distributed service-oriented environments. Explicitly, in an Inter-Cloud environment.