A4C 2012 - First International Workshop on Agents for Cloud (A4C 2012)

The Agents for Clouds Cloud workshop brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of agents programming and technologies applied to Cloud and Grid systems, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
Authors are invited to submit original contribution or surveys on, but not restricted to, the following topics.
Extended version of accepted papers will be selected for publication in:
IJCSE (International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering)
Topics of interest
Agents applications for Cloud and Grid
Agents based Cloud Services
Agents As A Services
Agents based Brokering and Trading
Agents for ITC business
Trading strategies
Negotiation models, protocols and algorithms
Agents based monitoring
SLA negotiation, monitoring and enforcement
Security mechanisms
Simulation tools and models for Cloud
Cloudification of multi agents systems and applications
Cloud Programming with agents
Autonomic resource management
Semantic Cloud
Performance evaluation of agents applications
Sky computing