Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems

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.

• Autonomic Computing
• E-Science
• Economic Models
• Grid Economics
• Incentive Engineering
• Internet
• algorithms
• cloud computing
• distributed computing
• distributed systems
• management
• networks
• organization
• technology
• virtual organization

• 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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