An open standard description language for semantic grid services assembly for autonomic computing overlay

Many are anticipating that grid computing infrastructure, utilities and services will become an integral part of future socio-economical fabric. However, factors such as cost of access, reliability and dependability of the technology undoubtedly influence its adoption and widespread use. IBM are promoting autonomic computing as a solution to alleviate such concerns by delegating software systems' management, security, reliability and performance tuning to the software itself. Based on an on-going research work, focusing on high-assurance concerns of widely distributed systems, this paper outlines a service-oriented approach and associated service infrastructure description languages, which are used to facilitate the construction and management of ad-hoc federated software services.