Preliminary specification and design documentation for software components to achieve Catallaxy in computational systems

This deliverable describes the work done in the first 6 months of task 2.1, " Software components:Specification and design of software components, based on theoretical and experimentalexperience from related and the assessment projects, so that Catallaxy can be implementedin any computational system including the simulation and prototype software” from WP2,"Fundamental components”. The document is divided in four parts: The introduction with aplacement of the CATNETS idea to existing Grid taxonomies, a description of the Catallaxyconcept as such, the presentation of the fundamental components identified so far, and themapping of the concept to the candidate ALN implementations for the "proof-of-concept"prototypes in later work packages....