MagCat: an agent-based metadata service for data grids

Author

De Sousa, Bysmarck Barros ; Silva, Francisco José da Silva e ; Teixeira, Mário Meireles ; Filho, Gilberto Cunha

Author_Institution

Dept. de Eng. de Eletricidade, Univ. Fed. do Maranhao, Sao Luis

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

16-19 May 2006

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Facing the increasing demand for data sharing in distributed environments, computer grids became an attractive technology to manage extended data sets, providing efficient access, publishing, and data discovery. In this paper, we present the structure and implementation of MagCat multi-agent system, that provides a service for publishing and discovery data in grids through metadata. This service is being developed in context of MAG, a grid middleware that explores the mobile agent paradigm as a way to overcome the design and implementation challenges of constructing a grid middleware

Keywords

grid computing; meta data; middleware; mobile agents; multi-agent systems; MagCat; agent-based metadata service; data discovery; data grids; data sets; data sharing; distributed environments; grid middleware; mobile agent; multiagent system; Authentication; Computer architecture; Data security; Database systems; Distributed computing; Environmental management; Grid computing; Middleware; Protocols; Publishing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2006. CCGRID 06. Sixth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2585-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCGRID.2006.1630901

Filename

1630901