A Framework For Agent-Oriented Design Based On Grid

Based on the research of grid architecture and main agent-oriented software modeling methods, this thesis proposes a new modeling method for agent-oriented analysis and design based on OGSA architecture, FFAOG (formal framework for Agent-Oriented design based on Grid), aiming to establish a new distributed system based on Grid.The main research contents of FFAOG method include three aspects:First, for service was all is a fundmental idea of OGSA, all Grid Service is based on a group of core interface, it achieved the implemention of the flexible, consistent,dynamic mechnism, so the abstract method of Agent-oroented distributed software system based on OGSA was proposed;Second,on the basis of traditional Agent definition, combining with the character of Grid and architecture of OGSA, we redifine the Agent, and introduce new abstract definition of Grid Agent and Agent Service providing the abstract mechnism for the analysis and design of Grid application system;Third, we expanded the i* framework,UML and Object-Z, created a formal framework for Agent-oriented design based on Grid. At last, through an E-Trade system based on Grid application example, we demonstrate the requirement acquirement, analysis, design modeling (including formal framework modeling) and agent's elicitation, the mapping from analysis to design. The paper summarized the deficiency of our work, and pointed out the perspective of this method.