A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an electronic contract between a service user and a provider, and specifies the service to be provided, Quality of Service (QoS) properties that...
Omer F. Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan...
The application of autonomous agents by the provisioning and usage of computational resources is an attractive research field. Various methods and technologies in the area of arti...
Nikolay Borissov, Arun Anandasivam, Niklas Wirstr&...
Abstract. In distributed computer networks where resources are under decentralized control, selfish users will generally not work towards one common goal, such as maximizing the o...
There has been recently an increasing interest in Grid services and economic-aware Grid systems both in the industry and the academia. In this paper we specify a market for hardwar...