Economic models and algorithms for distributed systems

Distributed computing models for sharing resources such as Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such as PlanetLab, OneLab, BitTorrent, and SETI home, a widespread use of these technologies for business applications has not yet been achieved. In a business environment, mechanisms are needed to provide incentives to potential users for participating sharing in such networks. These mechanisms may range from simple non-monetary access rights to policies for sharing, to monetary payments. Although a few models for a framework of the notion of a ‘Grid economy’ have been discussed, none of these models has made itinto practice yet. This book attempts to fill this gap by discussing the reasons and exploring new incentive mechanisms for distributed systems in collaborative environments Interdisciplinary approach that combines work from Economics and Computer Science Coordination and incentive problems prevalent to any kind of distributed system are analyzed by means of economic theory Economic theory is put to work by providing evidence (e.g. by prototypes) that the pure concepts are feasible to be implemented in the field INDICE: Introduction.- Current Trends in Market-based Grid Systems.- How much it costs?.- Part I: Mitigating Provider Uncertainty in Service Provision Contracts.- A Gridified, Secure, Mobile Business Workflow Using gSET.- Enforcing Service Level Agreements using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager.- Formation of Virtual Organizations in Grids: A Game-Theoretic Approach.- Economic aspects of building software for Service-Oriented Architectures.- Economically Enhanced MOSIX for Market-based Scheduling in Grid OS.- Part II: Grid Value Chains: Understanding Business and Value Creation in the Grid.- Trust-oriented Utility-based Community Structure in Multiagent systems.- Reputation-based Pricing.- Charactising Trust in Dynamic Collaborations.- A Simple Model for Determining the Optimal Capacity Investment for Utility Computing.- Text-Content-Analysis based on the Syntactic Correlations between Ontologies.- Part III: SORMA.- GridEcon.- BeinGrid.

• ISBN: 978-3-7643-8896-6
• Editorial: Birkhaüser
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés