Rudder: An agent-based infrastructure for autonomic composition of grid applications

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Li, Zhen^{; *} | Parashar, Manish

Affiliations: The Applied Software Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 08854, USA. E-mail: zhljenny@caip.rutgers.edu, parashar@caip.rutgers.edu

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 732 445 3807; Fax: +1 732 445 0593; E-mail: zhljenny@caip.rutgers.edu

Abstract: This paper describes Rudder, a decentralized agent-based infrastructure for supporting the autonomic composition of Grid applications. Rudder provides agents and protocols for discovering, selecting, and composing elements. It also implements agent interaction and negotiation protocols to enable appropriate application behaviors to be dynamically negotiated and enacted. The defined protocols and agent activities are supported by Comet, a scalable decentralized shared-space based coordination substrate. The implementation, operation and experimental evaluation of the system are presented.

Keywords: Autonomic composition, self-managing Grid applications, agent-based system, decentralized coordination substrate

DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2005-1304

Journal: Multiagent and Grid Systems, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 183-195, 2005