Fifth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT'05) Dynamic Work.ow in a Grid Enabled Problem Solving Environment Shanghai, China September 21-September 23 ISBN: 0-7695-2432-X
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CIT.2005.101
In a Problem Solving Environment (PSE), a scientific workflow management system (SWMS) provides a meta environment for managing activities and data in scientific experiments, for prototyping experimental computing systems and for orchestrating the runtime system behaviour. A Grid infrastructure makes data and computing intensive experiments feasible in PSEs but also requires the management of workflow to support dynamics of the flow execution. A dynamic SWMS includes a human user in the runtime loop of a flow execution, and allows an engine to flexibly orchestrate a workflow according to the human decision and the runtime states of the environment. In this paper, we present our research in an ongoing project: Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (VL-e). An agent based solution is proposed to enhance an existing Grid enabled Problem Solving Environment framework called VLAM-G. The intelligence for problem solving strategies and for workflow orchestration is encapsulated as knowledge in two types of agents: study managers and scenario conductors.
Index Terms:
Grid, Problem Solving Environment, Scientific Work.ow, Multi Agent Systems, Petri net.
Citation:
Zhiming Zhao, Adam Belloum, Hakan Yakali, Peter Sloot, Bob Hertzberger, "Dynamic Work.ow in a Grid Enabled Problem Solving Environment," cit, pp.339-345, Fifth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||