Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems Barcelona, Spain, June 3–7, 2000 Revised Papers
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The architecture of a component based environment for constructing scientific applications — generally referred to as a Problem Solving Environment (PSE), is described. Each component is a self-contained progr...
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A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) should aim to hide implementation and systems details from application developers, to enable a scientist or engineer to concentrate on the science. A PSE is, by definition, ...
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We describe a technique for deriving performance models from design patterns expressed in the Unified Modelling Language (UML) notation. Each design pattern captures a theme within the Aglets mobile agent libr...
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International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems Barcelona, Spain, June 3–7, 2000 Revised Papers
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A modelling approach based on the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is proposed as a first stage in develo** agent based systems. The SSMapproach enables a better conceptualisation of the system being developed...
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The growing number of computers accessible through a network, such as the Internet, has meant that these computers can be collectively employed to solve complex problems. Since the networks that connect such m...
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An overview of research and development challenges for managing data in Grid environments is provided. We relate issues in data management at various levels of abstraction, from resources storing data sets, to...
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Various toolkits have been developed in the research community for constructing multi-agent systems. These toolkits differ in the types of programming languages they support, particular agent services they can...
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A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is a complete, integrated computing environment for composing, compiling and running applications in a specific problem area or domain. We describe a visual code development...
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Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) provide a collection of tools for composition of scientific applications. Such environments are often based on graphical interfaces that enable components to be combined, an...
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The use of a service-based approach in Grid computing will lead to such services becoming valuable economic commodities. Current economics models on the Internet are concerned with the creation, sale and purch...
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Mobile agents provide an important paradigm for supporting dynamic services in Computational Grids. We outline reasons why mobile agents are useful and how they can provide support for resource discovery and p...
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A self-organising system functions without central control, and through contextual local interactions. Components achieve a simple task individually, but a complex collective behaviour emerges from their mutua...
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Locating suitable services within a dynamic distributed system is a computationally intensive process, with no guarantee of quality and suitability of the discovered services. This is especially true for trans...
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The conversion of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) into a FIPA-compliant system (i.e. one that adheres to FIPA standards) is important to support interoperability across different MAS. We provide an approach to unde...
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First International Conference, HPCC 2005, Sorrento, Italy, September 21-23, 2005. Proceedings
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As computer and computational scientists have to manage access to increasingly complex computing and data resources, this becomes a time consuming task. This is especially true for Computational Grids, which c...
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As computational infrastructure becomes more powerful and complex, there is a greater need to provide tools to support the scientific computing community to make better use of such infrastructure. The abscence...
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Service discovery and matchmaking in a distributed environment has been an active research issue since at least the mid 1990s. Previous work on matchmaking has typically presented the problem and service descr...