Market-Oriented Grid and Utility Computing / Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDF)

The first single-source reference covering the state of the art
in grid and utility computing economy research

This book presents the first integrated, single-source reference
on market-oriented grid and utility computing. Divided into four
main parts--and with contributions from a panel of experts in
the field--it systematically and carefully explores:

* Foundations--presents the fundamental concepts of
market-oriented computing and the issues and challenges in
allocating resources in a decentralized computing environment.

* Business models--covers business models for service
providers and brokers supporting different types of distributed
applications, as well as business rules-based models for managing
virtual organizations and accounting operations and services in
grid computing environments.

* Policies and agreements--introduces policies,
agreements, and specifications for the negotiation and
establishment of contracts between providers and consumers. It also
covers different approaches for resource allocation based on
service-level agreements (SLAs) and management of risks associated
with SLA violations.

* Resource allocation and scheduling
mechanisms--covers economic models, such as commodity
models, reciprocation, auctions, and game theory, and middleware
technologies, such as Nimrod/G and Gridbus, for market-oriented
grid computing and utility-oriented resource allocation.

This book expertly captures the state of the art in the field
while also identifying potential research directions and
technologies that will facilitate the creation of global commercial
grid and utility computing systems. It is an indispensable
reference for systems architects, practitioners, developers, new
researchers, and graduate students.