Abstract

Applications of Intelligent Agent Technology to the Grid Page 1 1 Applications of Intelligent Agent Technology to the Grid Carl Kesselman Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California Globus Alliance In collaboration with Nick Jennings & Ian Foster 2 Why the Grid? Origins: Revolution in Science ● Pre-Internet ◆ Theorize &/or experiment, alone or in small teams; publish paper ● Post-Internet ◆ Construct and mine large databases of observational or simulation data ◆ Develop simulations & analyses ◆ Access specialized devices remotely ◆ Exchange information within distributed multidisciplinary teams Page 2 2 3 Why the Grid? New Driver: Revolution in Business ● Pre-Internet ◆ Central data processing facility ● Post-Internet ◆ Enterprise computing is highly distributed, heterogeneous, inter-enterprise (B2B) ◆ Business processes increasingly computing- & data-rich ◆ Outsourcing …

Date

September 20, 2004

Authors

Carl Kesselman

Conference

Web Intelligence

Pages

4