Forming and managing agent teams acting as resource brokers in the Grid — preliminary considerations

Abstract

Recently, we can observe an increasing interest in utilization of software agents in computational Grids. In our work agent teams play role of Grid resource brokers and managers. Previously we have discussed how to efficiently implement matchmaking services, as well as proposed a way by which agents select a team that will execute their job. In this paper we focus our attention on processes involved in agents joining a team.