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(3) Message Transport Service (MTS): it provides communication service for
agent from different platform.
(4) Agent: it is a basic component in the platform. It is an unified and whole
component to provide one or more services. It can access outer resources,
user interface and communication infrastructure. Every agent has unique
AID.
(5) Agent platform(AP)
it provides physic infrastructure for agents which
includes
machine,
operation
system,
agent
support
software,
agent
management components(DF,AMS,MTS) and agents.
(6) Software: it includes all non-agent software. Agent can access them, e.g.
adding new service, acquiring new service protocol and new security
protocol/ algorithm, new negotiation protocol and access supporting toolkits.
(7) Agent librar
14.8 Agent Grid Intelligence Platform
Web Services provide a means of interoperability that was essential to achieve
large-scale computation with a focus on middleware to support large scale
information processing. In a Grid, the middleware is used to hide the
heterogeneous nature and provide users and applications with a homogeneous
and seamless environment by providing a set of standardized interfaces to a
variety of services. In 2002 we have proposed a four-layer model for agent-based
grid computing to combine agent computing with grid computing through
middleware concept shown in Figure 14.18 (Shi et al., 2002):
(1) Common resources: consist of various resources distributed in Internet, such
as mainframe, workstation, personal computer, computer cluster, storage
equipment, databases or datasets, or others, which run on Unix and other
operating systems.
(2) MAGE environment: it is the kernel of Grid computing which is responsible
to resources location and allocation, authentication, unified information
access, communication, task assignment, agent developing tools and others.
(3) Developing toolkit: provide developing toolskitx, containing distributed
computing, data mining applications, collaborative applications, image and
video processing, global search engine, semantic Web services, negotiation
support, to let users effectively use middelware resources.
(4) Application service: organize certain agents automatically for specific
purpose application, such as power supply, oil supply e-business, distance
education, e-government.
