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Enabling dynamic composition and coordination for autonomic Grid applications using the Rudder Agent framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2006

ZHEN LI
Affiliation:
The Applied Software Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA; e-mail: zhljenny@caip.rutgers.eduparashar@caip.rutgers.edu
MANISH PARASHAR
Affiliation:
The Applied Software Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA; e-mail: zhljenny@caip.rutgers.eduparashar@caip.rutgers.edu

Abstract

This paper introduces Rudder, a peer-to-peer agent framework for supporting autonomic applications in decentralized distributed environments. The framework provides agents to discover, select, and compose elements, and defines agent interaction and negotiation protocols to enable appropriate application behaviors to be negotiated and enacted dynamically. The implementations of these protocols as well as agent coordination and negotiation activities are supported by Comet, a scalable decentralized coordination substrate. The operation and experimental evaluation of Rudder is presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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