Market-Oriented Grid and Utility Computing

CONTRIBUTORS.
PREFACE.
ACRONYMS.
PART I FOUNDATIONS.
1 Market-Oriented Computing and Global Grids: An Introduction(Rajkumar Buyya and Srikumar Venugopal).
2 Markets, Mechanisms, Games, and Their Implications in Grids(Yibo Sun, Sameer Tilak, Ruppa K. Thulasiram, and KennethChiu).
3 Ownership and Decentralization Issues in Resource AllocationMechanisms (Tiberiu Stef-Praun).
4 Utility Functions, Prices, and Negotiation (JohnWilkes).
5 Options and Commodity Markets for Computing Resources (DanCristian Marinescu, John Patrick Morrison, and Howard JaySiegel).
PART II BUSINESS MODELS.
6 Grid Business Models, Evaluation, and Principles (SteveTaylor and Paul McKee).
7 Grid Business Models for Brokers Executing SLA-Based Workflows(Dang Minh Quan and Jorn Altman).
8 A Business-Rules-Based Model to Manage Virtual Organizationsin Collaborative Grid Environments (Pilar Herrero, Jose LuisBosque, and Maria S. Perez).
9 Accounting as a Requirement for Market-Oriented Grid Computing(Andrea Guarise and Rosario M. Piro).
PART III POLICIES AND AGREEMENTS.
10 Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in the Grid Environment(Bastian Koller, Eduardo Oliveros, and AlfonsoSanchez-Macian).
11 SLAs, Negotiation, and Challenges (Paul McKee, SteveTaylor, Mike Surridge, and Richard Lowe).
12 SLA-Based Resource Management and Allocation (JordiGuitart, Mario Macias, Omer Rana, Philipp Wieder, RaminYahyapour, and Wolfgang Ziegler).
13 Market-Based Resource Allocation for Differentiated QualityService Levels (H. Howie Huang and Andrew S. Grimshaw).
14 Specification, Planning, and Execution of QoS-Aware GridWorkflows (Ivona Brandic, Sabri Pllana, and SiegfriedBenkner).
15 Risk Management In Grids (Karim Djemame, James Padgett,Iain Gourlay, Kerstin Voss, and Odej Kao).
PART IV RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND SCHEDULINGMECHANISMS.
16 A Reciprocation-Based Economy for Multiple Services in aComputational Grid (Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro,Miranda Mowbray, and Walfredo Cirne).
17 The Nimrod/G Grid Resource Broker for Economics-BasedScheduling (Rajkumar Buyya and David Abramson).
18 Techniques for Providing Hard Quality-of-Service Guaranteesin Job Scheduling (Pavan Balaji, Ponnuswamy Sadayappan, andMohammad Islam).
19 Deadline Budget-Based Scheduling of Workflows on UtilityGrids (Jia Yu, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, and RajkumarBuyya).
20 Game-Theoretic Scheduling of Grid Computations (Yu-KwongKwok).
21 Cooperative Game-Theory-Based Cost Optimization forScientific Workflows (Radu Prodan and Rubing Duan).
22 Auction-Based Resource Allocation (BjornSchnizler).
23 Two Auction-Based Resource Allocation Environments: Designand Experience (Alvin AuYoung, Phil Buonadonna, Brent N. Chun,Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Jeff Shneidman, Alex C. Snoeren, andAmin Vahdat).
24 Trust in Grid Resource Auctions (Kris Bubendorfer, BenPalmer, and Wayne Thomson).
25 Using Secure Auctions to Build a Distributed Metaschedulerfor the Grid (Kyle Chard and Kris Bubendorfer).
26 The Gridbus Middleware for Market-Oriented Computing(Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajiv Ranjan, and Chee ShinYeo).
INDEX.