An Event Driven Multi-agent Architecture for Enabling Cloud Governance

Cloud adoption is consistent within IT-based industries at different maturity levels. While cloud migration is an ongoing process, its base characteristics are not yet fully exploited. As Cloud Governance is built on top of requirements like security, reliability, trust, portability, interoperability, or fail over, a highly distributed and concurrent, and fault tolerant solution is required in order to achieve above specified requirements. This paper describes the core of an event-driven multi-agent architecture for supporting Cloud Governance activities, built around Akka/Clojure actor characteristics and fully exploiting the Enterprise Integration Patterns. The modeling process follows the Gaia methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design.