Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems.

Multi-agent systems (MASs) have received tremendous attention from scholars in different disciplines, including computer science and civil engineering, as a means to solve complex problems by subdividing them into smaller tasks. The individual tasks are allocated to autonomous entities, known as agents. Each agent decides on a proper action to solve the task using multiple inputs, e.g., history of actions, interactions with its neighboring agents, and its goal. The MAS has found multiple applications, including modeling complex systems, smart grids, and computer networks. Despite their wide applicability, there are still a number of challenges faced by MAS, including coordination between agents, security, and task allocation. This survey provides a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of MAS, starting from definitions, features, applications, challenges, and communications to evaluation. A classification on MAS applications and challenges is provided along with references for further studies. We expect this paper to serve as an insightful and comprehensive resource on the MAS for researchers and practitioners in the area.

Multi-Agent Systems: A Survey

Load-balancing algorithms in cloud computing

Load balancing in cloud computing: A big picture

Autonomous Agent Based Load Balancing Algorithm in Cloud Computing

A cloud computing environment offers a simplified, centralized platform or resources for use when needed at a low cost. One of the key functionalities of this type of computing is to allocate the resources on an individual demand. However, with the expanding requirements of cloud user, the need of efficient resource allocation is also emerging. The main role of service provider is to effectively distribute and share the resources which otherwise would result into resource wastage. In addition to the user getting the appropriate service according to request, the cost of respective resource is also optimized. In order to surmount the mentioned shortcomings and perform optimized resource allocation, this research proposes a new Agent based Automated Service Composition (A2SC) algorithm comprising of request processing and automated service composition phases and is not only responsible for searching comprehensive services but also considers reducing the cost of virtual machines which are consumed by on-demand services only.

A novel agent based autonomous and service composition framework for cost optimization of resource provisioning in cloud computing

Multiagent systems have been a fascination for research community and are often seen as an intelligent solution to many complex real world problems. Researchers have been active in the domain since last three decades and many developments pertaining to theoretical design and practical developments of multiagent systems are worth appreciating. The growth in MAS is multidirectional ranging from conceptual ideas to practical implementations and from the wide range of applications; it appears that multiagent systems are proving to be universal. The paper presents a concise survey of developments in MAS highlighting the important contributions in the field and also questions the universal applicability of agents.

A Thorough Insight into Theoretical and Practical Developments in MultiAgent Systems

Contract Net Protocol (CNP) is a means to specify problem-solving communication required in a distributed multi-agent environment. Although, FIPA standardized CNP addresses most of the issues with respect to communication happening among agents in a Multi-Agent Environment (MAE), issues related to establishing trust-worthy communication amongst agents is still prevailing. This work introduces a new Trust Establishment Protocol (TEP) in CNP, thereby improving CNP. The proposed new version shall be referred to as CNTEP Architecture. Introduction of TEP in existing CNP would help in ensuring truthfulness of agents which is crucial for open, dynamic and heterogeneous multi-agent systems.

Introducing Trust Establishment Protocol in Contract Net Protocol

Organizing contacts, friends, sharing thoughts, emotions searching content and data are the basic means that a social networking site provides. By sharing, and managing content the users form a social network for example, Facebook, Linkedin, twitter, Orkut, etc. A user may exist on several different social networking sites and the problem to maintain the account on these networks prevails. This brings us to define a Social network aggregation i.e. collecting the social content from different social networks and integrate it at a single location/site. It is an attempt to organize a user's social networking experience as whole. This paper gives a review on different Social network Aggregators and issues in integrating social network. Exposing criminal behaviours in e-commerce, computer intrusions identification, detecting health problems, analysing satellite images.

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Papers

Autonomous Agent Based Load Balancing Algorithm in Cloud Computing

A novel agent based autonomous and service composition framework for cost optimization of resource provisioning in cloud computing

A Thorough Insight into Theoretical and Practical Developments in MultiAgent Systems

Introducing Trust Establishment Protocol in Contract Net Protocol

Study and analysis of Social network Aggregator