tilizing agent teams in grid resource management preliminary considerations

Abstract

Recently it was suggested that (mobile) software agents can provide an infrastructure for resource management in grids. In this note we introduce an approach based on agent teams, and discuss how it can be used in grid resource management. Details of initial implementation of one of its functionalities are discussed.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users

“…Economic agents are employed by Li Chunlin and Li Layuan [21] for grid resource management. The work in [22] uses agent teams for grid resource discovery, allocation, and management. The benefits and success of agents in the grid has also attracted their use in the cloud environment because problems in grid and cloud are quite similar.…”

Agents as Resource Brokers in Grids — Forming Agent Teams

“…As a result of these assumptions we have functionalized the Grid as an environment in which workers (in our case agent workers) that want to contribute their resources (and be paid for their usage), meet and interact with users (in our case agent users) that want to utilize offered services to complete their tasks and (in [5]) proposed a system based on the following tenets:…”

“…Let us now focus our attention on interactions between the User and its representative: LAgent and agent teams residing in the system (remaining information can be found in [5]). Let us assume that the system is already "running for some time," so that at least some agent teams have been already formed.…”

“…Thus far we have presented an initial overview of the proposed approach ( [5]), studied the most effective way of implementing yellow-page-based matchmaking services ( [4]), and considered processes involved in agents seeking teams to execute their jobs ( [3]). The aim of this paper is to start addressing the question: how agent teams are formed?…”

Reengineering and Extending the Agents in Grid Ontology

“…The context for this paper is provided by the Agents in Grid project (AiG; [3,6,9]), which aims at development of an agent-based infrastructure for intelligent resource management in the Grid. The AiG project combines software agents and semantic data processing.…”