ORGANISATION
Automated Reasoning Systems Division
ITC-irst - Centro per la Ricerca
Scientifica e Tecnologica
A research centre of ITC - Istituto
Trentino di Cultura
DESCRIPTION
Providing an efficient, easy to use, and scalable infrastructure to
support the management of and the access to worldwide distributed
computational and data resources, is a very complex task. In fact, this
is the main purpose of the Grid project. The Grid should provide the
necessary computational and data power to computational and data
intensive applications. Examples of the latter can be found in the areas
of High Energy Physics, Earth Observation and Biology.
Inside the Grid many autonomous components, including computational
resource schedulers, replication managers, indexing systems, monitoring
systems, etc., must be combined in order to provide high level services
to applications. Such a complex structure as the Grid, could not be
realistically designed as a centralized monolithic organization. In fact,
this design philosophy would be a major impediment towards its
scalability and its flexibility. A more feasible structure for the Grid
is the one in which each component is specialized in a specific set of
services (its skills), and complex services that involve the use of many
skills, are achieved by making the simpler components collaborate with
one another.
Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems can provide the necessary
technology to fast prototype, experiment, and implement forms of Grid
collaboration. The aim of the workshop is to put together experts of
Grid computing with experts of Agents, to foster ideas, future research,
methodologies, and concrete plans for the use of Agent technology in the
Grid environment.
Detailed Program
LOCATION
ITC-irst,
via Sommarive 18, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
How to reach
us.
CONTACT POINT
REGISTRATION
Download the registration
form.
For logistics problems, please send the registration form in advance
also if you are going to pay the registration fee on site.
For information about registration please contact
Carola Dori (dori@itc.it)
ACCOMMODATION
ITC-irst has reserved rooms in some Hotels in Trento at reduced conference rates.
For information about accommodation please contact
Morena Carli (carli@itc.it)
Last modified: 11 May 2001
by Floriano Zini: zini@itc.it
