Conflict Resolution in Resource Federation with Intelligent Agent Negotiation

Resource federation in grid computing (Foster et al., 1999, 2001) still requires extensively intervention of resource administrator which is time and cost consuming. This limitation leads to the idea of applying the autonomous intelligent agent to ease the process of resource federation (Foster et al., 2004). The participation and contribution of resources are based on a set of rules and regulations, namely local administrative policies. The local administrative policies can be further detailed into accounting policy, access control policy, resource usage policy and more (Foster et al., 2001). In this study, resource usage policy (as shown in Fig. 1) specifies the requirements and limits on particular resources during resource federation between various participants. A consensus among the participants is achieved through a bargaining mechanism, which aims at maximizing the satisfaction level during policy negotiation. The policy negotiation involves the satisfaction of policy criteria.