Agent Mediated SOA with XML Framework for Grid Computing

Service oriented architecture is applied to Grid computing in the form of OGSA. But the classical service mechanism is too sophisticated to build a large scale service oriented Grid because of varieties of homogeneous and heterogeneous services with different level of quality. On the other hand, agent communities successfully built multi-agent system theory and agent based software engineering in recent years. Autonomic agent becomes a possible solution that hides this complexity. This article reviews the current research trends in Agent based Computing. It also extends SOA into an agent mediated SOA and summarizes methods for describing agent services. It aims to propose a cooperative and competing agent based service mechanism for large scale network and virtual organization. And it also proposes to build a prototype to verify the extended architecture and use existing formal methodology to build an agent service model.