Service-based integration of grid and multi-agent systems models

Authors:
Clement Jonquet;Pascal Dugenie;Stefano A. Cerri
Affiliations:
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA;Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier, National Center of Scientific Research & University Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France;Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier, National Center of Scientific Research & University Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
Venue:
SOCASE'08 Proceedings of the 2008 AAMAS international conference on Service-oriented computing: agents, semantics, and engineering
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This position paper addresses the question of integrating GRID andMAS (Multi-Agent Systems) models by means of a service oriented approach.Service Oriented Computing (SOC) tries to address many challenges in the worldof computing with services. The concept of service is clearly at the intersectionof GRID and MAS and their integration allows to address one of these keychallenges: the implementation of dynamically generated services based on conversations.In our approach, services are exchanged (i.e., provided and used) byagents through GRID mechanisms and infrastructure. Integration goes beyondthe simple interoperation of applications and standards, it has to be intrinsic tothe underpinning model. We introduce here an (quite unique) integration modelfor GRID and MAS. This model is formalized and represented by a graphicaldescription language called Agent-Grid Integration Language (AGIL). This integrationis based on two main ideas: (i) the representation of agent capabilitiesas Grid services in service containers; (ii) the assimilation of the service instantiationmechanism (from GRID) with the creation of a new conversation context(from MAS). The integrated model may be seen as a formalization of agent interactionfor service exchange.