Impact of Trust and Reputation Based Brokerage on the CloudAnchor Platform

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Veloso, B (Author) Other; Malheiro, B (Author) Other; Burguillo, JC (Author) Other; João Gama (Author) FEP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trustworthiness. The PAAMS Collection - 18th International Conference, PAAMS 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, October 7-9, 2020, Proceedings

Pages: 303-314

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Authenticus ID: P-00S-BTQ

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49778-1_24

Abstract (EN): This paper analyses the impact of trust and reputation modelling on CloudAnchor, a business-to-business brokerage platform for the transaction of single and federated resources on behalf of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME). In CloudAnchor, businesses act as providers or consumers of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources. The platform adopts a multi-layered multi-agent architecture, where providers, consumers and virtual providers, representing provider coalitions, engage in trust & reputation-based provider look-up, invitation, acceptance and resource negotiations. The goal of this work is to assess the relevance of the distributed trust model and centralised fuzzified reputation service in the number of resources successfully transacted, the global turnover, brokerage fees, losses, expenses and time response. The results show that trust and reputation based brokerage has a positive impact on the CloudAnchor performance by reducing losses and the execution time for the provision of both single and federated resources and increasing considerably the number of federated resources provided. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific