Managing usage service level agreements (USLAs) within environments that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions is a challenging problem. Mai...
While numerous efforts have focused on service composition in the Grid environment, service selection among similar services from multiple providers has not been addressed. In par...
William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Jiming Liu, Kevin H. Tsan...
—We present a practical, market-based solution to the resource provisioning problem in a set of heterogeneous resource clusters. We focus on provisioning rather than immediate sc...
Murray Stokely, Jim Winget, E. Keyes, C. Grimes, B...
The Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) defines a distributed system framework by integrating Grid and Web services technologies to facilitate resource sharing. In OGSI, Web ...
Kuo-Ming Chao, Muhammad Younas, Nathan Griffiths, ...
Application scheduling studies on large-scale shared resources have advocated the use of resource provisioning in the form of advance reservations for providing predictable and de...