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Agent Grid -
System Concept View
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What exactly is
an agent grid? How does it help us
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build and
configure agile C4I applications? How does it
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make agent
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available? Is there one grid or many? Is the grid a kind
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of agent
system? How does the grid enable
sharing
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and assure
system-wide properties? Is the grid globally
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scalable,
decentralized, and reliable? How do we build
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a grid?
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Thesis: an
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answer these questions.
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Paper:
“Characterizing the Agent Grid”, Handbook of
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Agent Systems
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above and begins
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A global agent
grid overlaid on the Internet makes it
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possible to
rapidly build scalable, survivable, robust,
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agile agent-based C4I
applications.
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