Shaping the future: Towards the next generation of powerful, pervasive, and service-oriented distributed systems

  • Authors:
  • Rainer Unland;Huaglory Tianfield

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Inst. for Comp. Sci. and Bus. Inform. Sys. (ICB), Data Mgmt. Sys. and Knowl. Rep., Schü/tzenbahn 70, 45117 Essen, Germany. T: +49 201 183 3421/ F: +49 201 183 4460/ un ...;Sch. of Comp. and Math. Sci., Glasgow Caledonian Univ., 70 Cowcaddens Rd., Glasgow, G4 0BA, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 141 331 8025/ Fax: +44 141 331 3608/ E-mail: h.tianfield@gcal.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • Multiagent and Grid Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The recent significant progresses in (wired and wireless) network and middleware technologies have opened a huge opportunity for many new research areas and paradigms related to open distributed computing systems. This paper aims to define a synthesis among these areas that are in one way or another related either to multi-agent systems or Grid computing or both, such as Semantic Grid, Agent-based Grid Computing, Service-oriented Architectures, (and utility-based computing). It is argued that there is a substantial overlap between the key issues being addressed by these areas. Thus, it makes sense to stimulate interdisciplinary research at a higher level of synthesis. This will open an exciting opportunity for ambient and open distributed computing environments that combines the qualities of the above mentioned individual research areas.