Rudder: An agent-based infrastructure for autonomic composition of grid applications

Abstract

This paper describes Rudder, a decentralized agent-based infrastructure for supporting the autonomic composition of Grid applications. Rudder provides agents and protocols for discovering, selecting, and composing elements. It also implements agent interaction and negotiation protocols to enable appropriate application behaviors to be dynamically negotiated and enacted. The defined protocols and agent activities are supported by Comet, a scalable decentralized shared-space based coordination substrate. The implementation, operation and experimental evaluation of the system are presented.

Weaving an agent-based Semantic Grid for distributed collaborative manufacturing

“…On the other hand, agents have been recognised as one of the main technologies to manage dynamic properties of Grid resources autonomously and intelligently (such as myGrid (2004) and Rudder (Li and Parashar 2005)), but there is not yet a widely accepted architecture for integrating agents in the Semantic Grid to facilitate autonomous deployment, reuse and federation of Grid services in distributed collaborative manufacturing in a meaningful and flexible way. In our previous work (Zhang et al 2006), a service-oriented multi-agent architecture is developed in the Semantic Grid, allowing various Grid services for distributed applications to be annotated with domain resource ontology to facilitate their autonomous deployment, reuse and federation in multidisciplinary collaborative design in a meaningful and flexible way.…”

Modeling adaptation with a tuple-based coordination language

“…For example, [8] presents an approach to develop an autonomic service-oriented architecture. This and other examples (e.g., [23,13]), however, focus on the use of formal methods for specific target applications. Our work, instead, aims at modeling general techniques commonly used to achieve autonomicity rather than specific autonomic systems.…”

Modeling adaptation with Klaim

“…For example, [9] presents an approach to develop an autonomic service-oriented architecture. However, this and other examples (e.g., [32,15]) focus on the use of formal methods for specific target applications. Our work, instead, aims at modeling general techniques commonly used to achieve autonomicity rather than specific autonomic systems.…”