Towards an Economy-Based Optimisation of File Access and Replication on a Data Grid

We are working on a system for the optimised access and replication of data on a Data Grid. Our approach is based on the use of an economic model that includes the actors and the resources in the Grid. Optimisation is obtained via interaction of the actors in the model, whose goals are maximising the profits and minimising the costs of data resource management. In the system, local optimisation results in global optimisation through emergent marketplace behaviour. In this paper we give an overview of our model and present part of the complex economic reasoning required to support this desired marketplace interaction model.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Mark James Carman, Floriano Zini, Luciano Serafini, Kurt Stockinger
• Keywords: CCGRID 2002, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Economic Model, Emergent Marketplace Behaviour, Marketplace Interaction Model