Agent and GridsNext Steps

http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/nesc-732/

Types of interactions

• Use case document– Use of OGF format (via either Semantic Grid

or GRAAP group)– Scenario’s of use – What problems can agent-techniques help

solve in particular application scenarios?– What is the value add from existing Grid

infrastructure

Types of scenarios• Mobile Grid scenario (Tom Kirkham)• Monitoring data use (Mark Baker)• Data replication/accounting (Xiaoyuchen)• Airplane engine maintenance management (Steve Willmott) – multiple• Insurance repair scenario (Steve Willmott)• Software Licensing (Steve Willmott)• Data interchange between healthcare providers (Steve Willmott)• Reputation/electronic commerce (Sebastian and George)• Social network on Grid users/Wiki-type (Isaac Chao)• Scenarios from ArguGrid – satellite data for disaster management

(Moustafa)• Pervasive domain/sensor networks (Dave de Roure)• Marine Biology user scenario/ocean monitoring (Jessica Chen Burger)• Fire/Disaster Management (Jessica Chen Burger)

Time line

• Omer and Julian – produce Google doc template (end of February)

• People to work over March – use cases

• Over April: Julian and Omer to review

• Feedback in May – update to end of May

• Target for October 2007

• Next OGF20: Manchester (May 2007) or OGF21 (October 2007)

Publications• Workshops

– “Service Level Agreements” at IEEE/ACM Grid 2007 (Austin, Texas) – September 2007

– OGF20: “Dynamic SLAs” (waiting? – will know by Friday – alert everyone on the mailing list) – in Manchester, May 2007

– Policy/SLAs – IEEE ICAC 2007 (June 2007 – Jacksonville, Florida). CoreGrid Springer.

– COIN 2007 (Coordination, Org. Inst. & Norms), Durham, 3-4 Sept, 2007. Call to go out TODAY!. Deadline: June 1, 2007.

Joint Publication• Survey article – ACM Surveys

– Topics for this

• Special Issue of Journals– Journal of Web Semantics etc (Carole Goble)– ACM Trans. On Autonomic and Adaptive

Systems (Giovanna)– Journal of Multi-Agent and Grids (Huaglory)– AAMAS journal (Sycara et al.)

Book Chapters“Agent-based Grid Computing” (IOS Press)

• Intention to submit: mid March– Mail to attendees list– Identify additional potential contributors

• Provide guidance on chapters – then ask contributors to provide input for these

• First draft: mid June• Comments: Julian and Omer to provide feedback• Include discussion – summary of this.

– Mail to attendees list to contribute to report of event– Summary of report to be included in book – all contributors will

be authors

WS-Agreement implementation• Converge telecon.

– Who has implemented what?– Whether there is interest in coordinating implementation?– Potential: March 16 @ 14:00 CET (confirm week)

• Max: 1 hour

• Mail: attendees list– Indicate interest – Omer to confirm whether March 16 works for everyone

• Frances, Shamima, George, Martin, Sebastian, Steve, Laszlo, Liviu, Julian, Omer– Oliver Waldrich and Wolfgang Ziegler– Philipp Wieder (?)

• Fundamental hook to agents

FP7 Possibilities• First call deadline: May 8

– Network of Excellence (NoE) or Coordinated Action (CSA)

• Also consider SOKU vision – close alignment with SLAs and Grids

• Service Level Agreement and Electronic Contracts

• Agile Services– NESSI (interaction with them?)– Positive: Good interaction:– Negative: Overlap with strategic objectives

• CSA may be more complementary to NESSI projects

Service Level Agreements/Agile Services

• Identify some bullet points on “key themes” in this area

• Identify potential partners/participants – with their particular expertise

• Potential Google Doc? – Julian: send a mail to a mailing (interest?)– Put together a Google Doc (identify bullet points)

• Mail to mailing list: February 27• Indicate interest: March 7• Google Doc: mid March

Deliverables

• Use case document

• Summary of discussion potential for chapters in book

• Analysis of WS-Agreement implementation

• Interest in FP7 NoE or CSA