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Using Ontologies to Manage Resources in Grid Computing: Practical Aspects

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This chapter shows how semantic technologies can enable the development of an agent-based intelligent middleware for the Grid (the Agents in Grid system). Resource providing agents are organized in teams and negotiate contracts with agents representing users. All information is ontologically demarcated and semantically processed. In particular, user preferences are turned into ontology class expressions and are applied directly in contract negotiations. The chapter provides a detailed overview of how ontologies are used in the AiG system. Key issues in the development of the AiG ontology are discussed, and the implementation of the ontology-focused parts of the system are described.

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Notes

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    For a comprehensive discussion of reasons behind the approach, see Dominiak et al. (2006) and Wasielewska et al. (2011).

  2. 2.

    www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00030/PC00030D.pdf

  3. 3.

    Unfortunately, the original CGO is not available online anymore and thus only the published work can be referenced.

  4. 4.

    Its current version can be found at http://gridagents.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gridagents/trunk/ontology/AiGOntology/

  5. 5.

    All ontological snippets, cited in the text, shall be presented in the Manchester OWL Syntax with namespaces omitted for readability and space preservation.

  6. 6.

    http://www.playframework.org/

  7. 7.

    http://www.jquery.com/

  8. 8.

    Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1453096

  9. 9.

    http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00008/SC00008I.html

  10. 10.

    http://www.racer-systems.com/

  11. 11.

    http://owlapi.sourceforge.net/

  12. 12.

    HermiT OWL Reasoner, http://hermit-reasoner.com/

  13. 13.

    Pellet: OWL 2 Reasoner for Java, http://clarkparsia.com/pellet/

  14. 14.

    OWL: FaCT +  + , http://owl.man.ac.uk/factplusplus/

  15. 15.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/

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The work of Maria Ganzha and Michał Drozdowicz was supported by the “Funds for Science” of the Polish Ministry for Science and Higher Education for years 2008–2011, as a research project (contract number N516 382434).

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    Michał Drozdowicz, Maria Ganzha, Katarzyna Wasielewska, Marcin Paprzycki & Paweł Szmeja

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Drozdowicz, M., Ganzha, M., Wasielewska, K., Paprzycki, M., Szmeja, P. (2013). Using Ontologies to Manage Resources in Grid Computing: Practical Aspects. In: Ossowski, S. (eds) Agreement Technologies. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_9

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