1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

A collaborative multi-agent based conference planner application using Web and grid services

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651230,
        author={Amina Tariq and Amna Basharat and Arshad Ali and Hafiz Farooq Ahmad and Hiroki Suguri},
        title={A collaborative multi-agent based conference planner application using Web and grid services},
        proceedings={1st International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2006},
        month={7},
        keywords={Application software  Autonomous agents  Collaboration  Collaborative software  Collaborative work  Distributed computing  Grid computing  Multiagent systems  Software agents  Web services},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651230}
    }
    
  • Amina Tariq
    Amna Basharat
    Arshad Ali
    Hafiz Farooq Ahmad
    Hiroki Suguri
    Year: 2006
    A collaborative multi-agent based conference planner application using Web and grid services
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2005.1651230
Amina Tariq1,*, Amna Basharat1,*, Arshad Ali1,*, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad2,*, Hiroki Suguri2,*
  • 1: NUST Institute of Information Technology, Chaklala Scheme III, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
  • 2: Communication Technologies, 2-15-28 Omachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-0804 Japan
*Contact email: amina.tariq@niit.edu.pk, amna.basharat@niit.edu.pk, arshad.ali@niit.edu.pk, farooq@comtec.co.jp, suguri@comtec.co.jp

Abstract

Distributed collaborative computing services have taken over centralized computing platforms allowing the development of distributed collaborative user applications. These applications enable people and computers to work together more productively. Multi-agent system (MAS) has emerged as a distributed collaborative environment which allows a number of agents to cooperate and interact with each other in a complex environment. We want to place our agents in problems whose solutions require the collation and fusion of information, knowledge or data from distributed and autonomous information sources. In this paper we present the design and implementation of an agent based conference planner application that uses collaborative effort of agents which function continuously and autonomously in a particular environment. The application also enables the collaborative use of services deployed geographically wide in different technologies i.e. software agents, grid computing and Web service. The premise of the application is that it allows autonomous agents interacting with Web and grid services to plan a conference as a proxy to their owners (humans).