Selected Papers on Agent-based Cloud Computing

Journal Papers (2012 to present)

1. K. M. Sim. Agent-based Cloud Computing. Special Issue on Cloud Computing in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC). VOL. 5, NO. 4, OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2012, pp. 564-577. (IEEE Computer Society).  Download the supplemental materials here or at http://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/sc/2012/04/tsc2012040564-abs.html

2. K. M. Sim. Agent-based Approaches for Intelligent Intercloud Resource Allocation. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing  (Impact factor: 7.928), Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 442 - 455, April-June, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2016.2628375

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3.  K. M. Sim.  Agent-based Interactions and Economic Encounters in an Intelligent InterCloud. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing  (Impact factor: 7.928), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 358-371, July-September, 2015. Download the supplemental materials here or at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abstractMultimedia.jsp?arnumber=7005451&punumber%3D6245519     

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4.  K. M. Sim. Complex and Concurrent Negotiations for Multiple Interrelated e-Markets. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (Impact factor: 8.803), VOL. 43, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2013, pp. 230-245.  

5. J. O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K.M. Sim. A Family of Heuristics for Agent-based Elastic Cloud Bag-of-Tasks Concurrent Scheduling. Special Issue on Grid, Distributed, and Cloud Computing and e-Science, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. Volume 29, Issue 7, September 2013, Pages 1682–1699. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X12000179

6. J. O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K.M. Sim. Agent-based Cloud bag-of-tasks execution. Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier. Volume 104, June 2015, pages 17-31.

7. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. Ontology-enhanced agent-based cloud service discovery. International Journal of Cloud Computing, InderScience (accepted and to appear).

8. S. Son and K. M. Sim. Adaptive and similarity-based tradeoff algorithms in a price-timeslot-QoS negotiation system to establish cloud SLAs. Information Systems Frontiers Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 565-589, 2015, Springer.

9. J. O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K. M. Sim. Agent-based Cloud Service Composition. Applied Intelligence Journal (featured in Science Watch as a Rising Star Journal), Springer. April 2013, Volume 38, Issue 3, pp 436-464. 

10. J. O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K. M. Sim. Agent-based Cloud Workflow Execution. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, IOS Press. Volume 19, Number 1 / 2012, pp. 39-56, IOS Press. DOI: 10.3233/ICA-2012-0387

11. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. A Multiagent Brokering Protocol for Supporting Grid Resource Discovery.  Applied Intelligence Journal (featured in Science Watch as a Rising Star Journal), December 2012, Volume 37, Issue 4, pp. 527-542, Springer.

12. S. Son and K. M. Sim. A Price-Timeslot Negotiation for Cloud Service Reservation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22),  Vol. 42, No. 3, June 2012, pp. 713-728.

13. J. O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K. M. Sim. GA-based cloud resource estimation for agent-based execution of bag-of-tasks applications. Special Issue on Advances on Intelligent Grid and Cloud Computing, Information Systems Frontier Journal, Springer. Vol. 14, No. 4, September 2012, pp. 925 - 951.

Magazine Article

14. K. M. Sim. CloudIntelligence: Agents within an InterCloud. Awareness Magazine. The official magazine for Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative, funded by the European Commission under FP7. Published online in December 2013.

Book Chapter

15. T. Han and K. M. Sim. An Agent-based Cloud Service Discovery System that consults a Cloud Ontology. Intelligent Automation and Computer Engineering. Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, 2010, pp.203-216.

Conference Papers (2009 to present)

16. K. M. Sim. Agent-based Cloud Commerce. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) 2009, December 8 to 11, 2009, Hong Kong. Outstanding Paper Nomination (only about 2% were selected).

17. K. M. Sim. Towards a Unifying Multilateral Cloud Negotiation Strategy. Proc. International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2013 Vol. I, IMECS 2013, March 13 - 15, 2013, Hong Kong. Best Paper Award.

18. S. Gong and K. M. Sim. CB-Cloudle: A Centroid-based Cloud Service Search Engine. Proc. International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2014, March 12 - 14, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 446-451. Best Student Paper Award.

19. T. Han and K. M. Sim. An Ontology-enhanced Cloud Service Discovery System. Proceedings of The 2010 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services, March 17-19, Hong Kong, pp. 644-649. Best Student Paper Award.

20. K. M. Sim. Towards Complex Negotiation for Cloud Economy.  Proc. 5th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2010), LNCS 6104, pp. 395-406, 2010. May 10-13, Hualian, Taiwan. 

21. S. Aliyu and K. M. Sim. Minimizing Message Exchanges in Agent-based Cloud Service Composition. Proc. International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2014, March 12 - 14, 2014, Hong Kong, pp. 513-518. 

22. S. Gong and K. M. Sim. CB-Cloudle and Cloud Crawlers. In Proc. 2014 5th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS 2014) held on June 27-29, 2014 in Beijing,China.

23. C. Chen, X. Zhu, W. Bao and K. M. Sim. An Agent-Based Emergent Task Allocation Algorithm in Clouds. In Proc. 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2013), Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013.

24. D. Yoo and K.M. Sim. A Scheduling Mechanism for Multiple MapReduce Jobs in a Workflow Application (Position Paper). In Proc. of the Computers, Communications and IT Applications Conference (COMCOMAP 2012), Hong Kong, January 11-13, 2012.

25. D. Yoo and K.M. Sim. A Locality Enhanced Scheduling Method for Multiple MapReduce Jobs in a Workflow Application. Proc. The 2012 International Conference on Information and Computer Applications, February 17-18, 2012, Hong Kong.

26 G. Jung and K. M. Sim. Location-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation Model for Cloud Computing Environment. Proc. The 2012 International Conference on Information and Computer Applications, February 17-18, 2012, Hong Kong.

27. S. Son and K. M. Sim. One-to-many  Price Time-Slot Negotiation Mechanism for a Cloud Resource Co-allocation to Multiple Providers. In Proc. Int. Conf. Applied and Theoretical Information Systems Research, Feb. 10-12, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.

28. J.O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K.M. Sim. Agents for Cloud Resource Allocation: an Amazon EC2 Case Study. In Proc. The 2011 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC), December 8-10, 2011, Jeju Island, Korea.

29. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. A Cloud Portal With A Cloud Service Search Engine. Proc. The 2011 International Conference on Information and Intelligent Computing (ICIIC 2011), November 25-27, 2011, Hong Kong.

30. G. Jung, K. M. Sim, P. Kwok, and M. Zhang. A Time-driven Adaptive Mechanism for Cloud Resource Allocation. Proc. 2011 4th IEEE International Conference on Broadband Network & Multimedia Technology (4th IEEE IC-BNMT2011), Oct. 28-30, 2011, Shenzhen, China, pp. 441-446.

31. J.O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K.M. Sim. A Family of Heuristics for Agent-based Cloud Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling. Proc. International Conference on Cyber-enabled distributed computing and knowledge discovery (CyberC), Beijing, October 10-12, 2011, pp. 416-423.

32. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. Towards Agents and Ontology for Cloud Service Discovery. Proc. International Conference on Cyber-enabled distributed computing and knowledge discovery (CyberC), Beijing, October 10-12, 2011, pp. 483-490.

33. D. Yoo and K.M. Sim. A Comparative Review of Job Scheduling for MapReduce. In Proc. 2011 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS 2011), Beijing, September 15-17, 2011, pp. 345 – 351.

34. G. Jung and K. M. Sim. Agent-based Adaptive Resource Allocation on the Cloud Computing Environment. In Proc. The Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing (Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems SRMPDS 2011), Taipei, Taiwan, September 13-16, 2011, pp. 345 – 351.

35. S. Son and K. M. Sim. A negotiation mechanism that facilitates the Price-Timeslot-QoS negotiation for establishing SLAs of Cloud Service Reservation. Proceedings of The Third International Conference on the Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2011), Macau, July 11-13, 2011, pp. 432-446.

36. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. Ontology and Search Engine for Cloud Computing System. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference of System Science and Engineering.  Jun 8-10, 2011, Macau, China, pp. 276 – 281.

37. T. Han and K. M. Sim. Towards Semantic-based Cloud Service Discovery Using Graph Matching. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education, and e-Technology (e-CASE & e-Tech 2011), Tokyo, Japan, January 18-20, 2011.

38. J.O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K.M. Sim. Self-Organizing Agents for Service Composition in Cloud Computing, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010, pp. 59 – 66.

39. S. Son and K. M. Sim. An Adaptive Tradeoff Algorithm for Multi-issue SLA Negotiation. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 13-15, 2010, Jeju Island, Korea.

40. J. O. Gutierrez-Garcia and K. M. Sim. Agent-based Service Composition in Cloud Computing. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 13-15, 2010, Jeju Island, Korea.

41. D. Yoo and K. M. Sim. A Multilateral Negotiation Model for Cloud Service Market. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 13-15, 2010, Jeju Island, Korea.

42. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. Cloudle: An Ontology-enhanced Cloud Service Search Engine. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Information System Engineering, collocated with the 11th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering, December 12 to 14, 2010, Hong Kong. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6724/2011, pp. 416-427.

43. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. Cloudle: A Multi-criteria Cloud Service Search Engine. Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, December 6 - 10, 2010, Hangzhou, China, pp. 339-346.

44. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. Cloudle: An Agent-based Cloud Search Engine that Consults a Cloud Ontology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization 2010, May 17-18, Singapore, pp. 312-318.

45. S. Son and K. M. Sim. A Multi-issue Negotiation Mechanism for Cloud Service Reservation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization 2010, May 17-18, Singapore, pp. 123-130.

46. K.M. Sim. Towards Agent-based Cloud Markets (Position Paper). In proceedings of The 2010 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education, and e-Technology (e-CASE & e-Tech 2010), Macau, January 25-27, 2010, pp. 2571-2573.

47. S. Son and K. M. Sim. Relaxed Time Slot Negotiation for Grid Resource Allocation. In proceedings of The 2009 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 10 to 12, 2009, Korea.

48. J. Kang and K. M. Sim. A Brokering Protocol for Agent-Based Grid Resource Discovery. In proceedings of The 2009 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 10 to 12, 2009, Korea.