In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the users and...
Ponnuram Balakrishnan, S. Thamarai Selvi, Gnanapra...
A shared distributed infrastructure is formed by federating computation resources from multiple domains. Such shared infrastructures are increasing in popularity and are providing...
Paul Ruth, Junghwan Rhee, Dongyan Xu, Rick Kennell...
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Service providers and their customers agree on certain quality of service guarantees through Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA contains one or more Service Level Objectives (S...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...