Discussion notes

Some thoughts from the discussion at the end of this morning's session:

1. The world we describe, where the decision about exactly which service is to be used is taken out of the hands of the users, may not be what all users want.
2. It was apparent that the agents approach is more "loosely coupled" than the grid services approach appears to be at this time, and may therefore be particularly beneficial at the inter-grid level.
3. How to engage the agents and grid communities? In agents there have been very successfuly competitions / challenges (Jon Dale ran an Agent Cities one). Could we do a challenge on the Grid? This would require some Grid services. I will take this issue back to GGF - i.e. will GGF provide/coordinate/list Grid services for community use? It also requies a scenario(s) (which must be motivating!) Suggestions?
4. People in the research community are looking at agents and web services and at semantic web services. What happens when working with grid services instead? e.g. Are the existing solutions affected by the state-handling? Do grid services go some way to providing agent functionality beyond web services? Are OWL-S/WSMO/WSDL-S neutral about the extra functionality in Grid services?

David De Roure