Multi-Agent based Middleware Framework for QoS Traffic Management

We present a hardware, vendor and platform independent management framework providing Quality of Service (QoS) in coordination with the management policies. The proposed architecture is a unifying framework applicable across all organizations with diverse capabilities and constraints. This is achieved by capitalizing the synergies that arise within the integration of the Web Services Management (WSM) technologies and the Multi-agents Systems (MAS) for the specific goal of coordinated QoS traffic management. Specifically, the managed resources are first described and offered directly by resource access interfaces under the web services management platform. Hence, the resources are transformed into managed web services that can participate directly in service oriented architecture (SOA). However, WSM technologies do not specify the exact management mechanisms about how the web services can be managed. We provide this required intelligence needed for the effective management of web services by making use of multi-agent systems as MAS enable intelligent operations, interactions, coordination and cooperation between autonomous components.