Towards self-organization in multi-agent systems and Grid computing

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Tianfield, Huaglory^{a; *} | Unland, Rainer^b

Affiliations: [a] School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, 70 Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA, UK | [b] Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB), Data Management Systems and Knowledge Representation, University of Duisburg-Essen, Schuetzenbahn 70, 45117 Essen, Germany

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Abstract: This paper presents an overview on some of the exciting interdisciplinary research areas that have emerged in recent years in multi-agent systems and Grid computing, e.g., semantic Grids, agent-based Grid computing, service-oriented architectures, autonomic computing, self-organizing software applications, and large-scale open multi-agent stems. It is a common trend that large-scale complex computing systems and software applications are required to be endowed with self-organizing capabilities. Since large-scale open multi-agent systems provide with a type of generic models for many of these newly emerging research problems with large-scale complex computing systems and software applications, self-organization of large-scale open multi-agent systems provide with a uniform approach to addressing the challenges arising therewith.

Keywords: Agent-based Grid computing, autonomic computing, large-scale open multi-agent system, multi-agent system, self-organization, self-organizing software application, semantic Grid, service-oriented architecture

DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2005-1203

Journal: Multiagent and Grid Systems, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 89-95, 2005