Agent mediated SOA with XML framework for grid computing
Gehao Lu, Hao Li, Joan Lu, Shaowen Yao · 2006
Service oriented architecture is applied to Grid comput-ing in the form of OGSA. But the classical service mecha-nism is too sophisticated to build a large scale service ori-ented Grid because of varieties of homogeneous and hetero-geneous services with different level of quality. On the other hand, agent communities successfully built multi-agent sys-tem theory and agent based software engineering in recent years. Autonomic agent becomes a possible solution that hides this complexity. This article reviews the current re-search trends in Agent based Computing. It also extends SOA into an agent mediated SOA and summarizes methods for describing agent services. It aims to propose a coopera-tive and competing agent based service mechanism for large scale network and virtual organization. And it also pro-poses to build a prototype to verify the extended architec-ture and use existing formal methodology to build an agent service model. 1.