PPT Slide
Implications for the Grid
What we demonstrated - grid was useful in various ways
- registration/discovery - WebTrader and AgentGram grid agents
- interoperability - eGents-grid proxy
Grid extensions
- each component can be viewed as a generic scalable grid extension
- egents adds wireless disconnected agents
- WebTrader adds web-wide agent/resource discovery
- AgentGram adds general way to MBNLI-enable grid agents using a lightweight interface that operates across the web.
- Smart Data Channels adds information flow formalism
- at the same time, each is standalone and useful separately
Grid implications
- several ways to conceptualize the grid - see our earlier paper at www.objs.com to appear in Bradshaw, Handbook of Agent Technology
- there might be no minimal agent grid - different subsets of the agent grid are separately useful