01567nas a2200241   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653001300055653001100068653002000079653002300099100002100122700001600143700002100159700001700180245005500197856009800252300001000350490000600360520094500366022001401311       2015                            d  c06/201510aSecurity10aAgents10aCloud Computing10aService Capability1 aK Venkateshwaran1 aAnu Malviya1 aUtkarsha Dikshit1 aS Venkatesan00aSecurity Framework for Agent-Based Cloud Computing  uhttp://www.ijimai.org/JOURNAL/sites/default/files/files/2015/05/ijimai20153_3_4_pdf_21054.pdf  a35-420 v33 aAgent can play a key role in bringing suitable cloud services to the customer based on their requirements. In agent based cloud computing, agent does negotiation, coordination, cooperation and collaboration on behalf of the customer to make the decisions in efficient manner. However the agent based cloud computing have some security issues like  (a.) addition of malicious agent in the cloud environment which could demolish the process by attacking other agents, (b.) denial of service by creating flooding attacks on other involved agents. (c.) Some of the exceptions in the agent interaction protocol such as Not-Understood and Cancel_Meta protocol can be misused and may lead to terminating the connection of all the other agents participating in the negotiating services. Also, this paper proposes algorithms to solve these issues to ensure that there will be no intervention of any malicious activities during the agent interaction.  a1989-1660