Autonomous semantic grid: Principles of autonomous decentralized systems for grid computing

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2640-2650

  Shafiq, Muhammad Omair ^a,c,d   Ahmad, Hafiz Farooq ^a,b   Suguri, Hiroki ^b,e,f,g,h   Ali, Arshad ^a,g,h  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b Research and Development Communication Technologies   (Japan)

^c NUST Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^e National University of Sciences and Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^f IPSJ   (Japan)

^g IEEE

^h IIEEJ

Author keywords

Agents; Autonomy; Grid computing; Semantics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; AVAILABILITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTEROPERABILITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GRID COMPUTING; SEMANTIC GRID; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 30344463813     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.12.2640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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