A service scheduling model in the service grid environment

Grid computing is a kind of important information technology, which enables resource sharing in a wide area and system integration. Resource management and scheduling in a grid environment is a challenging problem worth researching. A Mobile Agent-based service scheduling model (MASSM) in the service grid is presented, which aims at maximizing the user's benefit The Most Benefit Travelling Salesman Problem (MBTSP) is introduced to describe how the Agent acts in this model and a routing algorithm is also proposed. MASSM is adaptable to the dynamic environment in service grid and able to maximize the user's benefit as well as assure different QoS requirements.