CatNet: Catallactic Mechanisms for Service Control and Resource Allocation in Large-Scale Application-Layer Networks

The aim of the CatNet project is to combine economic and computer science research to provide new coordination mechanisms for large-scale application-layer networks. The ability of a free-market economy to balance and satisfy the conflicting needs of millions of human agents recommends it as a decentralized organizational principle. CatNet will evaluate a decentralized mechanism for resource allocation in computer networks, which is based on the economic paradigm of the Catallaxy. The technical realization of the paradigm builds on software agents which buy and sell network services and resources. This concept is applied both to initial service deployment and service access and to provisioning during the network’s lifecycle.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Oscar Ardaiz, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke
• Keywords: CCGRID 2002, Decentralized Mechanism, Decentralized Organizational Principle, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Large-scale Application-layer Networks