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Impact of Trust and Reputation Based Brokerage on the CloudAnchor Platform

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Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trustworthiness. The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2020)

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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.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially financed by CloudAnchor: Modular Platform for the Integration and Management of Federated Cloud Computing Platforms – projects QREN N. 23151 and «POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961», and by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within project UIDB/50014/2020.

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  1. UPT - Portucalense University, Porto, Portugal

    Bruno Veloso

  2. INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal

    Bruno Veloso, Benedita Malheiro & João Gama

  3. ISEP/IPP – School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Benedita Malheiro

  4. ETSET/UVigo – School of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

    Juan Carlos Burguillo

  5. FEP/UP – Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    João Gama

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Veloso, B., Malheiro, B., Burguillo, J.C., Gama, J. (2020). Impact of Trust and Reputation Based Brokerage on the CloudAnchor Platform. In: Demazeau, Y., Holvoet, T., Corchado, J., Costantini, S. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trustworthiness. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12092. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49778-1_24

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