Understanding Agents in OPM Workshop by Luc Moreau
Delve into the concept of agents in OPM Workshop facilitated by Luc Moreau. Explore the nature of agents, their differences from artifacts, causes of their behavior, and challenges in their utilization. Discover the role of enactors, executables, and workflows in generating and controlling agents. Unravel the causal relationship between workflows and artifact production, questioning the essence of agents as a stream of artifacts.
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What are Agents? OPM Workshop Luc Moreau
Agents What are agents? Why aren t artifacts? What causes agents to be as they are? Nothing in the model Difficulty of use of agents, which result in interoperability issues See figures 16 and 17 in the specification
Enactor Executable Montage Workflow Script Alternate Operating System/ Grid Execute Program Pegasus/ Condor Dagman wasGeneratedBy(out) wasControlledBy FITS DataSet Produce Sky Mosaic wasGeneratedBy(out) Mosaic Degree
Jims view agent Research er NSF Pegasus Workflow Template Run a workflow Perform experiment Fund project Proposal Produce Mosaic The Mosaic FITS Luc s question: what is the causal relationship between Run a workflow and Produce Mosaic?
What solution? Not too sure The controller of a process could be an artifact Several artifacts could denote different instances of a same entity, which is the agent Agency is the common property of these artifacts Should the agent be seen as a form of stream of artifacts?
