AI and Grid Computing

Programme



9:00-9:15
Overview + Introduction
Michael Schroeder + Omer Rana

9:15-9:40
Laying the Foundations for the Semantic Grid
Steven Newhouse, Anthony Mayer, Nathalie Furmento, Stephen McGough, James Stanton and John Darlington
Imperial College, London

9:40-10:05
Adaptation Engine: an Agent-Based Framework for ad-hoc Service Life-Cycle Management for Meta-Computing
M. Allen, E. Grishikashvili, N. Badr and A. Taleb-Bendiab School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University

10:05-10:30
Multi-Agent Support for Internet-Scale Grid Management
F.M.T. Brazier, B.J. Overeinder, M. van Steen, and N.J.E. Wijngaards
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10:30-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-11:25
RAGE: an agent framework for easy distributed computing
P. Mathieu, J.C. Routier, and Y. Secq
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille CNRS upresa 8022, Universit e des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59657 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex

11:25-11:50
jfipa - an Architecture for Agent-based Grid Computing
Amund Tveit
Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

11:50-12:15
The AgentCities Network & Other Information Spaces
Simon Thompson,
BT Exact Technologies, Adastral Park, UK

12:15-12:45
Discussion

Lunch and end of Symposium