Date
Topic
Reading
Responsible
9/4
Introduction, Agent Overview
AAMAS Journal 1(1)
Decker
9/9
Web Services Overview
A Web Services Primer [Vasudevan]
Web Services [Berners-Lee]
9/11
Grid Computing Overview
Computational Grids [Foster & Kesselman]
9/16
Agents: Architecture
lAgent Toolkits
DECAF - A Flexible Multi Agent System Architecture [Graham et al.]
9/18
Hurricanes
none
Mother Nature
9/23
Web Services: Architecture
WS Architecture (draft 8)
Shabnam
9/25
Grid: Architecture
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations [Foster at al.]
Kevin
9/30
Grid: Service Communication/Architecture
The Physiology of the Grid: An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration [Foster et al.]
Jeff
10/2
Agents: Service Communication
FIPA ACL Message Structure Specification FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification Example Protocol: Contract Net
Gang
10/7
Web Services: Service Communication
SOAP 1.2 PrimerSOAP 1.1(current)
(also, you might check out Microsoft's SOAP 1.1 "A Young Person's Guide to the Simple Object Access Protocol"
Maitreya
10/9
Agents: Service Discovery/Description
IMPACT : The Interactive Maryland Platform for Agents Collaborating Together [Arisha, et al.]
10/14
LARKS: Dynamic Matchmaking among heterogeneous Agents in Cyberspace [Sycara et al.]
Joe
10/16
Web Services: Service Description
Comment: Examining WSDL
WSDL 1.1(current)WSDL 1.2
10/21
Web Services: Service Discovery
UDDI V3 FeaturesUDDI V3 Spec
WSDL in UDDI Version 2.0 best practice(IBM summary part 1)(IBM summary part 2)
******
10/23
Agents: Service Description
Comment: The True Meaning of Service
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web [Akolenkar et al.]
10/28
Grid: Service Description
Grid Information Services for Distributed Resource Sharing [Czajkowski et al.]
Heather
10/30
Grid: Service Discovery
Matchmaking: Distributed Resource Management for High Throughput Computing [Raman et al.]
A Directory Service for Configuring High-Performance Distributed Computations [Fitzgerald et al.]
Kishore
11/4
Agents: Coordination
Coordination Techniques for DAI [Nick Jennings]
11/6
Agents: Resource Scheduling/Planning
Distributed Problem Solving and Planning [Durfee]
Sachin
11/11
A Negotiation-based Interface Between a Real-time Scheduler and a Decision-maker. [Garvey et al.]
Design-to-criteria Scheduling: Real-time Agent Control [Wagner & Lesser]
11/13
Web Services: Coordination
WS Choreography Requirements 1.0WS Coreography Interface
Comment: In the Service of CooperationBPEL4WS
11/18
Grid: Coordination
SNAP: A Protocol for negotiating service level agreements and coordinating resource management in distributed systems [Czajkowski et al.]
11/20
Grid: Scheduling/Coordination
A Distributed Resource Management Architecture that Supports Advance Reservations and Co-Allocation [Foster et al.]
Wei
11/25
Grid: Resource Scheduling
High Performance Schedulers [Berman]
11/27
THANKSGIVING
12/2
myGrid
Agents for the Grid: A Comparision with Web Services [Moreau et al.] Part IPart II
12/4
On the use of Agents in a Bioinformatics Grid [Moreau et al.]
An Integrative Approach to Attaching Semantic Data to Service Descriptions [Moreau et al.]
12/9
Final Project Reports