Overview
- 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)
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Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems
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Reputation Mechanisms and Trust
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Service Level Agreements
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Business Models and Market Mechanisms
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems
Editors: Dirk Neumann, Mark Baker, Jörn Altmann, Omer Rana
Series Title: Autonomic Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8899-7
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8896-6Published: 07 December 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-8899-7Published: 13 February 2010
Series ISSN: 2504-3862
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3870
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 270
Topics: Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), System Performance and Evaluation