HTM5-Trade Model for relationship based trade modelling in multi agent systems

Cloud computing and multi agent systems are two different but correlated flavors of distributed computing. Cloud computing is a business oriented model with efficient infrastructural usage as the prime focus while the multi agent system research is oriented towards the development of intelligent applications on distributed infrastructure. The commonality between the two appears when agents in a multi-agent system trade services with other agents. In recent years, model driven engineering is changing the way software is developed for complex distributed systems. Multi-view models are collection of models for a system under study, where every model is called a ‘view’ of the system and captures a different aspect of the design. Relationships are important aspects of multi-agent system design as agents are evolved from the concept of objects in object oriented modelling. The current work proposes a model for relationship based modelling of service oriented trade in a multi agent system. The proposed model may also be used to model intelligent cloud computing services based on multi-agent systems. The model is one of the 5 ‘views’ of a 5-View Hyperactive Transaction Meta-Model HTM5 and thus called HTM5-Trade Model.