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Contributors | p. ix |
Preface | p. xv |
Acronyms | p. xix |
Foundations | |
Market-Oriented Computing and Global Grids: An Introduction | p. 3 |
Markets, Mechanisms, Games, and Their Implications in Grids | p. 29 |
Ownership and Decentralization Issues in Resource Allocation Mechanisms | p. 49 |
Utility Functions, Prices, and Negotiation | p. 67 |
Options and Commodity Markets for Computing Resources | p. 89 |
Business Models | |
Grid Business Models, Evaluation, and Principles | p. 123 |
Grid Business Models for Brokers Executing SLA-Based Workflows | p. 147 |
A Business-Rules-Based Model to Manage Virtual Organizations in Collaborative Grid Environments | p. 167 |
Accounting as a Requirement for Market-Oriented Grid Computing | p. 187 |
Policies And Agreements | |
Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in the Grid Environment | p. 215 |
SLAs, Negotiation, and Challenges | p. 237 |
SLA-Based Resource Management and Allocation | p. 261 |
Market-Based Resource Allocation for Differentiated Quality Service Levels | p. 285 |
Specification, Planning, and Execution of QoS-Aware Grid Workflows | p. 309 |
Risk Management In Grids | p. 355 |
Resource Allocation And Scheduling Mechanisms | |
A Reciprocation-Based Economy for Multiple Services in a Computational Grid | p. 357 |
The Nimrod/G Grid Resource Broker for Economics-Based Scheduling | p. 371 |
Techniques for Providing Hard Quality-of-Service Guarantees in Job Scheduling | p. 403 |
Deadline Budget-Based Scheduling of Workflows on Utility Grids | p. 427 |
Game-Theoretic Scheduling of Grid Computations | p. 451 |
Cooperative Game-Theory-Based Cost Optimization for Scientific Workflows | p. 475 |
Auction-Based Resource Allocation | p. 495 |
Two Auction-Based Resource Allocation Environments: Design and Experience | p. 513 |
Trust in Grid Resource Auctions | p. 541 |
Using Secure Auctions to Build a Distributed Metascheduler for the Grid | p. 569 |
The Gridbus Middleware for Market-Oriented Computing | p. 589 |
Index | p. 623 |
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