Subject
Dynamic Service Generation: Agent interactions for service
exchange on the Grid
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Abstract
This thesis deals with dynamic service exchange modelling.
The notion of service is now at the centre of distributed
system development; it plays a key role in their implementation
and success. The thesis proposes firstly a reflection
about the notion of service and introduces the concept of
Dynamic Service Generation (DSG) as a different way
to provide and use services in a computer-mediated context:
services are dynamically constructed, provided and used by
agents (human or artificial) within a community, by means
of a conversation. In particular, two major characteristics
of DSG are highlighted: an agent and Grid oriented aspect
of service exchange. Therefore, the thesis proposes an integration
of three research domains in Informatics: Service-Oriented
Computing (SOC), Multi-Agents System (MAS) and GRID. The thesis
contributions consists of three main aspects: The proposal
of (i) a new agent representation and communication
model, called STROBE, that enables agents to develop
different languages for each agent they communicate with.
STROBE agents are able to interpret communication messages
and execute services in a given dynamic dedicated conversation
context; (ii) a computational abstraction, called
i-dialogue (intertwined dialogues) that models multi-agent
conversations by means of fundamental constructs of applicative/functional
languages (i.e., streams, lazy evaluation and higher-order
functions); (iii) a service-oriented GRID-MAS integrated
model based on the representation of agent capabilities
as Grid services. In this model, concepts of GRID and MAS,
relations between them and the rules are semantically described
by a set-theory formalization and a common graphical description
language, called Agent-Grid Integration Language (AGIL).
AGIL integrates the thesis results together by formalizing
agent interactions for service exchange on the Grid. |
Key words
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC), Multi-Agents System (MAS),
GRID, agent
interaction, Web service, Grid service, dynamic service generation.
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Download the manuscript
A version of the manuscript (V5) is available
here [PDF - 7,08Mo]
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Defence
Scheduled for Thursday November 16, 2006, at LIRMM (seminary
room) with the following jury members:
| Michael N. Huhns, |
Professor, |
University of South Carolina, USA |
(reviewer) |
| Luc Moreau, |
Professor, |
University of Southampton, UK |
(reviewer) |
| Domenico Talia, |
Professor, |
Università della Calabria, Italy |
(reviewer) |
| Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, |
Professor, |
Université Paris 6, France |
(examiner) |
| Jacques Ferber, |
Professor, |
Université Montpellier2, France |
(examiner) |
| Jean-Luc Koning, |
Professor, |
Inst. Nat. Polytechnique de Grenoble, France |
(examiner) |
| Stefano A. Cerri, |
Professor, |
Université Montpellier2, France |
(supervisor) |
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Download the presentation
The defence slides presented Thursday November 16, 2006 at
LIRMM is available here: [PDF
file- 2,47Mo].
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