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Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1 (AAMAS'04)
pp. 8-15
Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each Other
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
Nicholas R. Jennings, University of Southampton
Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California
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The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts
and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from
different perspectives. The Grid community has
historically focused on "brawn": infrastructure, tools,
and applications for reliable and secure resource sharing
within dynamic and geographically distributed virtual
organizations. In contrast, the agents community has
focused on "brain": autonomous problem solvers that
can act flexibly in uncertain and dynamic environments.
Yet as the scale and ambition of both Grid and agent
deployments increase, we see a convergence of interests,
with agent systems requiring robust infrastructure and
Grid systems requiring autonomous, flexible behaviors.
Motivated by this convergence of interests, we review the
current state of the art in both areas, review the
challenges that concern the two communities, and
propose research and technology development activities
that can allow for mutually supportive efforts.
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Citation:
Ian Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselman,
"Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each Other,"
aamas,
pp. 8-15,
Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1 (AAMAS'04),
2004
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