Communication mechanisms in ecological network-based grid middleware for service emergence

  • Authors:

  • Yongsheng Ding;Lei Gao;Da Ruan

  • Affiliations:

  • College of Information Sciences and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, PR China and Engineering Research Center of Digitized Textile and Fashion Technology, Ministry of Education, Do ...;College of Information Sciences and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, PR China;The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK·CEN), Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium and Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S9), B-9000 Gen ...

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Next generation grid systems are heading for globally collaborative, service-oriented and live information systems that exhibit a strong sense of automation. A collection of autonomous agents is searched, assembled, and coordinated in a grid middleware system to produce desirable grid services. An effective communication mechanism is vital to the effectiveness of the step to build a novel grid middleware system. In this study, we provide our grid middleware with a flexible communication solution to implement the complicated behaviors among different agents. We propose a transport mechanism of grid middleware, named as ecological network communication language (ENCL) and ecological network interaction protocol (ENIP) respectively from a low-level to a high-level implementation strategy of a communication mechanism. A series of experiments demonstrate that a service with some of the desired properties can emerge from interacting agents via the proposed solution.