# Carbon-Aware, Energy-Efficient, and SLA-Compliant Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers Using Deep Q-Networks and Agglomerative Clustering

> Research article (Computers, 2025) · cited 10× · AI/ML

**Wikidata**: [openalex:W4412428793](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/openalex:W4412428793)  
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