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MGS: An API for Developing Mobile Grid Services

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This paper presents an application programming interface called MGS which supports service development in the Mobile Grid Service middleware framework. Mobile Grid Services, the extension of the original static Grid services, are characterized by the ability of moving from nodes to nodes during execution. By combining an existing mobile agent system (JADE) and a generic grid system toolkit (Globus), the Mobile Grid Services framework is constructed. The API consisting of the AgentManager class, Task Agent template and configurable Monitor Agent is used to provide both an easy and flexible environment for Mobile Grid Services development.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914952_55.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR

    Sze-Wing Wong & Kam-Wing Ng

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  1. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Zahir Tari

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Wong, SW., Ng, KW. (2006). MGS: An API for Developing Mobile Grid Services. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914952_23

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