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We present our practical experience in implementing an agent-based system for provision and selection of Grid services. The agents form a marketplace where services are offered and searched. Agents communicate semantic information about services using OWL-S. We describe our implementation that is built on Globus Toolkit 3, the JADE agent framework and an OWL-S toolkit. This combination of technologies can be used for more sophisticated agent-based services, such as automatic composition of services. We illustrate and evaluate our framework using a simple example, yet without loosing generality. Our preliminary evaluation captures the relative costs of different stages during service provision and selection, and detects potential bottlenecks.
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Nimar, G., Vlassov, V., Popov, K. (2006). Practical Experience in Building an Agent System for Semantics-Based Provision and Selection of Grid Services. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Meyer, N., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752578_34
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