Building a Peer-to-peer Information System in Grids via Self-organizing Agents

A Grid information system should rely upon two basic features: the replication and dissemination of information about Grid services and resources, and the distribution of such information among Grid hosts. This paper examines an approach based on ant systems to replicate and map Grid services information on Grid hosts according to the semantic classification of such services. The Ant-based Replication and MApping Protocol (ARMAP) is used to disseminate resource information by a decentralized mechanism, and its effectiveness is evaluated by means of an entropy index. Information is disseminated by agents

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: GRID
• Authors: Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, Giandomenico Spezzano
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Grid, GRID 2008, Grid Services, Information