Speaker
Mr
Lee Mathew
(University of Greenwich)
Description
With Grid technologies and software agents becoming
increasingly relevant in the
sphere of distributed systems, it is suggested by many that
these two technologies,
far from being contradictory, serve an important
complementary function. Grid
technologies focus on a robust and extensible
infrastructure. Agent systems
concentrate on autonomous and flexible behaviours. Both
would benefit from utilising
the relative strengths of the other. Motivated by this
desire, we review the current
state of the art of both areas, review the challenges that
both communities face and
examine current attempts to develop an integrated strategy
that promises an enhanced
symbiosis between the two approaches. We propose an approach
to a unified Grid/agent
framework that has the ability to support the development of
distributed systems that
would, at the same time, be robust, extensible, autonomous
and flexible.
Author
Mr
Lee Mathew
(University of Greenwich)
