Grid services mediation

Grid services are software components that provide seamless access to a variety of grid resources such as computational resources and data sources. We present a new multi-agent framework which aims to ensure effective mediation of grid services. The framework comprises different services including search and discovery, planning and coordination, and service reliability and security. The main objectives of the framework are to dynamically discover grid services, devise effective planning and coordination strategies for the discovered services, and securely and reliably utilise those services.