Supporting Formation and Operation of Virtual Organisations in a Grid Environment
Jianhua Shao, William Alexander Gray, Nicholas John Fiddian, Vikas Deora, Gareth Shercliff, Patrick J. Stockreisser, Timothy J. Norman, Alun D. Preece, Peter M. D. Gray, Stuart Chalmers, Nir Oren, Nicholas R. Jennings, G. Flucke, Viet Dung Dang, Thu Duc Nguyen, Jigar Patel, W. T. Luke Teacy, Simon Thompson · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 2004
The ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie the Grid concept and research. In this paper, we describe the agent-based mechanisms that we are currently developing within the CONOISE and CONOISE-G projects for supporting VO for-mation and operation. 1