Cloud Computing and Software Agents: Towards Cloud Intelligent Services

Cloud computing systems provide large-scale infrastructures for high-performance computing that are “elastic” since they are able to adapt to user and application needs. Clouds are used through a service-oriented interface that implements the *-as-a-service paradigm to offer Cloud services on demand. This paper discusses Cloud computing models and architectures, their use in parallel and distributed applications, and examines analogies, differences and potential synergies between Cloud computing and multi-agent systems. This analysis is lead having in mind the goal of implementing highperformance complex systems and intelligent applications by using of Cloud systems and software agents. The convergence of interests between multi-agent systems that need reliable distributed infrastructures and Cloud computing systems that need intelligent software with dynamic, flexible, and autonomous behavior can result in new systems and applications.