RE: [sem-grd] Agents and the Grid?

[34omair@niit.edu.pk]

Dear All,

I am Omair Shafiq, semantic grid research student working in collaboration
with Communication Technologies JAPAN, and National University of Sciences
& and Technology (www.niit.edu.pk) Pakistan.

in reply to Devaid De Roure,

We have just completed with a toolkit named "AgentWeb Gateway".

It makes FIPA compliant JADE Agents to communication and discover web
services and vice versa hence providing two way communication among both
the technologies. So we have achieved Integration of Agents and Web
Services.

Next step is to enhance this toolkit to make the Software Agents with Grid
and vice versa. As soon as it is released officially by my supervisors Dr.
Hiroki Suguri (Vice President Comtec) and Dr. H. Farooq Ahmad (Associate
Prof NUST) we will send you this url and publications.

I would support that both the Agent and Grid activities to be initiated in
GGF because that would support a very important research area "Agents over
Grid" which I believe are very important factors to proceed towards
Semantic Grid.

Semantic Grid is " Software Agents over existing Grid Infrastructure with
semantics as glue to keep both of technologies integrated".

I have experienced many times a gap of knowledge and ideas among Agents
and Grid research community.

Semantic Grid is .... Intelligent (brains forming dynamic virtual
organizations, Aim of Agent (FIPA) community) needs a robust
infrastructure to cope with hetrogenous envoronment (Aim of Grid (OGSA)
community).

So if GGF has both the Agents and Grid avtivities, it would help both the
communities to inline their efforts.

Waiting for comments from community ...

Best Regards,
M. Omair Shafiq
Semantic Grid Research Group
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
NUST Institute of Information Technology
166-A, St # 9, Chaklala Scheme 3 Rawalpindi, Pakistan.


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> Some GGF business.
>
> There will be a discussion about GGF area reorganisation at a
> forthcoming GGF Steering Group meeting (at SC2004).
>
> In fact this doesn't affect the Semantic Grid Research Group much.
> We're currently in the architecture area, we could well have been
> in data, and it doesn't make a huge amount of difference anyway(!)
>
> Meanwhile I have been advocating the introduction of an activity
> in the area of agents and the grid, and this has attracted some
> interest from parts of the agents community where there are some
> existing grid activities.  It needs a champion and I think this
> may happen.
>
> So, through reorganisation of the areas, this may will end up in
> an area alongside Semantic Grid (which may be a good thing when it
> comes to bridge-building).
>
> Anyway, I'd welcome any comments from the community on this (e.g.
> do you think GGF should have an agents and the grid activity?  Do
> you think it should sit next to Semantic Grid?), so that I can go
> into the discussions able to represent your views.
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Dave
>

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