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Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems

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Editors:
  1. Dirk Neumann

    1. Kollegiengebäude II, Platz Alten Synagoge, Freiburg, Germany

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  2. Mark Baker

    1. ACET Centre, School of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading, Reading, UK

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  3. Jörn Altmann

    1. Technology Management, Economics & Policy Program, College of Engineering Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

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  4. Omer Rana

    1. School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

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  • 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
  • Theoretical work is illustrated with experiences from state-of-the-art European projects
  • Addresses many new insights into how to approach coordination and incentive problems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Autonomic Systems (ASYS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems

    1. Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems

      • Dirk Neumann, Mark Baker, Jörn Altmann, Omer Rana
      Pages 1-3

  3. Reputation Mechanisms and Trust

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-8
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    2. A Belief-based Trust Model for Dynamic Service Selection

      • Ali Shaikh Ali, Omer F. Rana
      Pages 9-23

    3. Reputation, Pricing and the E-Science Grid

      • Arun Anandasivam, Dirk Neumann
      Pages 25-43

    4. Trust-oriented Utility-based Community Structure in Multiagent Systems

      • Georgia Kastidou, Robin Cohen
      Pages 45-61

    5. Formation of Virtual Organizations in Grids: A Game-Theoretic Approach

      • Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu
      Pages 63-81

    6. Towards Dynamic Authentication in the Grid — Secure and Mobile Business Workflows Using GSet

      • Jürgen Mangler, Erich Schikuta, Christoph Witzany, Oliver Jorns, Irfan Ul Haq, Helmut Wanek
      Pages 83-104

  4. Service Level Agreements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-108
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    2. Enforcing Service Level Agreements Using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager

      • Mario Macías, Garry Smith, Omer Rana, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres
      Pages 109-127

    3. Extended Resource Management Using Client Classification and Economic Enhancements

      • Tim Püschel, Nikolay Borissov, Dirk Neumann, Mario Macías, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres
      Pages 129-141

    4. Mitigating Provider Uncertainty in Service Provision Contracts

      • Chris Smith, Aad van Moorsel
      Pages 143-159

    5. Text-Content-Analysis based on the Syntactic Correlations between Ontologies

      • Axel Tenschert, Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, Bastian Koller
      Pages 161-180

  5. Business Models and Market Mechanisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-185
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    2. Cloud Computing Value Chains: Understanding Businesses and Value Creation in the Cloud

      • Ashraf Bany Mohammed, Jörn Altmann, Junseok Hwang
      Pages 187-208

    3. A Model for Determining the Optimal Capacity Investment for Utility Computing

      • In Lee
      Pages 209-220

    4. A Combinatorial Exchange for Complex Grid Services

      • Melanie Moßmann, Jochen Stößer, Adam Ouorou, Eric Gourdin, Ruby Krishnaswamy, Dirk Neumann
      Pages 221-237

    5. Heuristic Scheduling in Grid Environments: Reducing the Operational Energy Demand

      • Christian Bodenstein
      Pages 239-256

    6. Facing Price Risks in Internet-of-Services Markets

      • Raimund Matros, Werner Streitberger, Stefan Koenig, Torsten Eymann
      Pages 257-269
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About this book

Distributed computing paradigms for sharing resources such as Clouds, Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such as PlanetLab, OneLab, BOINC, 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 in such networks. These mechanisms may range from simple non-monetary access rights, monetary payments to specific policies for sharing. Although a few models for a framework have been discussed (in the general area of a "Grid Economy"), none of these models has yet been realised in practice. This book attempts to fill this gap by discussing the reasons for such limited take-up and exploring incentive mechanisms for resource sharing in distributed systems. The purpose of this book is to identify research challenges in successfully using and deploying resource sharing strategies in open-source and commercial distributed systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kollegiengebäude II, Platz Alten Synagoge, Freiburg, Germany

    Dirk Neumann

  • ACET Centre, School of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Mark Baker

  • Technology Management, Economics & Policy Program, College of Engineering Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

    Jörn Altmann

  • School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Omer Rana

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