36 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automating Component Integration in a Distributed Problem Solving Environment
A tool for automating the wrap** of legacy components, which can represent parallel or sequential executable codes, for use within a dis-tributed problem solving environment is described. Each wrapped com-po...
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An XML Based Component Model for Generating Scientific Applications and Performing Large Scale Simulations in a Meta-computing Environment
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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Implementing Problem Solving Environments for Computational Science
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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Automating Performance Analysis from UML Design Patterns
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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Dynamic Resource Discovery through MatchMaking
A decentralised resource management technique is described that makes use of ‘resource capabilities’ and ‘task requirements’ to find suitable allocations. The technique extends the ‘classified advertisement’ a...
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Performance Analysis of Java Using Petri Nets
Understanding and improving Java performance is an important objective, for both application and tool developers. Current efforts towards develo** benchmarks have played a crucial role towards this objective...
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A Modelling Approach for Agent Based Systems Design
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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Metacomputing and Grid Computing
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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Infrastructure Issues and Themes for Scalable Multi-agent Systems
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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Coordinating Learning Agents via Utility Assignment
In this paper, a coordination technique is described for fully cooperative learning based multiagent systems, based on the Collective Intelligence work by Wolpert et al. Our work focuses on a practical impleme...
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Organizing Service-Oriented Peer Collaborations
Locating suitable resources within a Peer-2-Peer (P2P) system is a computationally intensive process, with no guarantee of quality and suitability of the discovered resources. An alternative approach is to cat...
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Pattern/Operator Based Problem Solving Environments
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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A Double Auction Economic Model for Grid Services
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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Self-Organisation: Paradigms and Applications
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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Supporting FIPA Interoperability for Legacy Multi-agent Systems
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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Agent Based Computational Grids: Research Issues and Challenges
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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Web-Services Based Modelling/Optimisation for Engineering Design
Results from the DIstributed Problem SOlving (DIPSO) project are reported, which involves the implementation of a Grid-enabled Problem Solving Environment (PSE) to support conceptual design. This is a particul...
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Mobile Agent-Based Service Provision in Distributed Data Archives
An agent-based architecture of an active Digital Library (DL) is first described, to illustrate how electronic service provision can be supported through the use of agents. The use of mobile agents is presente...
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Software Engineering and Problem Solving Environments for Scientific Computing: An Introduction
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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Matchmaking of Mathematical Web Services
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...
