Utilizing Agent Teams in Grid Resource Brokering ∗ M. Dominiak † M. Ganzha ‡§ M. Gawinecki ‡ W. Kuranowski ¶ M. Paprzycki ‡‖ S. Margenov ∗∗ I. Lirkov ∗∗ June 1, 2007 Abstract Recently it was suggested that (mobile) software agents can provide an infrastructure for resource brokering and management in Grids. In this pa- per we introduce a novel approach based on agent teams. Since the yellow pages-based approach was selected to facilitate resource discovery, we sum- marize results of our experiments to find an efficient ways of implementing yellow page service in an agent-based system. We also discuss how agents can find a team that will execute their job. 1 Introduction Grid computing has emerged as a promising approach to utilizing heterogeneous, geographically distributed, multi-domain computer resources. Virtualization of computing resources by Grid computing is expected to provide its users with highly available and adaptable computing utilities. It is also expected to have a broad impact in science, businesses and industries. Unfortunately, the uptake ∗ Work of M. Ganzha, M. Paprzycki, S. Margenov, and I. Lirkov is sponsored by the Poland- Bulgaria Academy of Science cooperation grant. † Technical University of Warsaw ‡ Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Science § Elblag University of Humanities and Economics ¶ Software Development Department, Wirtualna Polska ‖ Warsaw School of Social Psychology ∗∗ Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Science 1