SHARP: an architecture for secure resource peering
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Combinatorial Auctions
Tycoon: An implementation of a distributed, market-based resource allocation system
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Sharing networked resources with brokered leases
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Precise and realistic utility functions for user-centric performance analysis of schedulers
Proceedings of the 16th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Alternating-offers bargaining with one-sided uncertain deadlines: an efficient algorithm
Artificial Intelligence
Decommitment in multi-resource negotiation
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Bilateral Bargaining with One-Sided Two-Type Uncertainty
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Extending Alternating-Offers Bargaining in One-to-Many and Many-to-Many Settings
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Managing commitments in multiple concurrent negotiations
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Strategic agents for multi-resource negotiation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Negotiation for resource allocation in IaaS cloud
COMPUTE '11 Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ACM Bangalore Conference
Negotiation over decommitment penalty
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
On Effective Quality of Service Negotiation
CCGRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012)
Integrating self-organisation into dynamic coalition formation
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Bilateral bargaining with one-sided uncertain reserve prices
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
SLA achievement by negotiation in a cloud
Proceedings of the 6th ACM India Computing Convention
Research on resource scheduling of cloud based on improved particle swarm optimization algorithm
BICS'13 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems
Resource scheduling of cloud with QoS constraints
ISNN'13 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in Neural Networks - Volume Part II
Tasks for agent-based negotiation teams: Analysis, review, and challenges
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Risk management for multi-agent resource allocation under incomplete information
International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications
Agent-Based System Design for Service Process Scheduling: Challenges, Approaches and Opportunities
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Hi-index | 0.00 |
We consider the problem of allocating networked resources in dynamic environment, such as cloud computing platforms, where providers strategically price resources to maximize their utility. Resource allocation in these environments, where both providers and consumers are selfish agents, presents numerous challenges since the number of consumers and their resource demand is highly dynamic. While numerous auction-based approaches have been proposed in the literature, this paper explores an alternative approach where providers and consumers automatically negotiate resource leasing contracts. Since resource demand and supply can be dynamic and uncertain, we propose a distributed negotiation mechanism where agents negotiate over both a contract price and a decommitment penalty, which allows agents to decommit from contracts at a cost. We compare our approach experimentally, using representative scenarios and workloads, to both combinatorial auctions and the fixed-price model used by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, and show that the negotiation model achieves a higher social welfare.