TY - JOUR
T1 - Communication mechanisms in ecological network-based grid middleware for service emergence
AU - Ding, Yongsheng
AU - Gao, Lei
AU - Ruan, Da
A2 - Carlé, Benny
A2 - Laes, Erik
N1 - Score = 10
PY - 2007/2
Y1 - 2007/2
N2 - Next generation grid systems are heading for globally collaborative, service-oriented and live information systems that exhibit a strong sense of automation. A collection of autonomous agents is searched, assembled, and coordinated in a grid
middleware system to produce desirable grid services. An effective ommunication mechanism is vital to the effectiveness of the step to build a novel grid middleware system. In this study, we provide our grid middleware with a flexible ommunication
solution to implement the complicated behaviors among different agents. We propose a transport mechanism of grid middleware, named as ecological network communication language (ENCL) and ecological network interaction protocol
(ENIP) respectively from a low-level to a high-level implementation strategy of a communication mechanism. A series of experiments demonstrate that a service with some of the desired properties can emerge from interacting agents via the proposed solution.
AB - Next generation grid systems are heading for globally collaborative, service-oriented and live information systems that exhibit a strong sense of automation. A collection of autonomous agents is searched, assembled, and coordinated in a grid
middleware system to produce desirable grid services. An effective ommunication mechanism is vital to the effectiveness of the step to build a novel grid middleware system. In this study, we provide our grid middleware with a flexible ommunication
solution to implement the complicated behaviors among different agents. We propose a transport mechanism of grid middleware, named as ecological network communication language (ENCL) and ecological network interaction protocol
(ENIP) respectively from a low-level to a high-level implementation strategy of a communication mechanism. A series of experiments demonstrate that a service with some of the desired properties can emerge from interacting agents via the proposed solution.
KW - Agent communication
KW - Ecological networks
KW - Service emergence
KW - Grid middleware
UR - http://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/open/ezp_77284
UR - http://knowledgecentre.sckcen.be/so2/bibref/4083
U2 - 10.1016/j.ins.2006.08.005
DO - 10.1016/j.ins.2006.08.005
M3 - Article
SN - 0020-0255
VL - 177
SP - 722
EP - 733
JO - Information Sciences
JF - Information Sciences
IS - 3
ER -