As the practice of science moves beyond the single investigator due to the complexity of the problems that now dominate science, large collaborative and multi-institutional teams ...
Rapid advancement of communication technology has changed the landscape of computing. New models of computing, such as business-on-demand, Web services, peer-to-peer networks, and...
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...
Abstract. Different auction-based approaches have been used to allocate resources in Grids, but none of them provide the design choice for a specific economic model while consideri...
In this paper, we propose a dynamic pricing strategy which is used for a market-based resource allocation mechanism in a local Grid. We implement an agent based Grid economy in whi...