A Framework of an Agent-based Support System for IaaS Service Discovery

Hybrid cloud has been considered a viable option to address the unavailability and/or limited resources of an in-house private cloud as per user's requirements or at runtime. The approach is poised to highly benefit the user in terms of procuring the required resources and/or the time element. With many companies offering different features of public cloud services, even if such service is of the same type, the quest to discover and select the suitable public cloud service provider is of utmost importance. This paper proposed an agent-based support system to discover the most suitable public cloud service provider based on the user's requirements. Agents and ontologies were used to implement the proposed model. Verification test results demonstrates the viability and usefulness of the system.