A Service Scheduling Model in the Service Grid Environment

Grid computing is a kind of important information technology, which enables resource sharing in a wide area and system integration. Resource management and scheduling in a grid environment is a challenging problem worth researching. A Mobile Agent-based service scheduling model (MASSM) in the service grid is presented, which aims at maximizing the user´s benefit. The Most Benefit Travelling Salesman Problem (MBTSP) is introduced to describe how the Agent acts in this model and a routing algorithm is also proposed. MASSM is adaptable to the dynamic environment in service grid and able to maximize the user´s benefit as well as assure different QoS requirements.