Decentralized vs. Centralized Economic Coordination of Resource Allocation in Grids Export

@incollection{Eymann2004Decentralized, abstract = {Application layer networks are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual computers, like in Grid or Peer-to-Peer computing. Controlling the resource allocation in those networks is nearly impossible using a centralized arbitrator. The network simulation project CATNET will evaluate a decentralized mechanism for resource allocation, which is based on the economic paradigm of the Catallaxy, against a centralized mechanism using an arbitrator object. In both versions, software agents buy and sell network services and resources to and from each other. The economic model is based on self-interested maximization of utility and self-interested cooperation between agents. This article describes the setup of money and message flows both for centralized and decentralized coordination in comparison.}, author = {Eymann, T. and Reinicke, M. and Ardaiz, O. and Artigas, P. and D\'{\i}az and Freitag, F. and Messeguer, R. and Navarro, L. and Royo, D. and Sanjeevan, K.}, citeulike-article-id = {4890524}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/9fu1qfyh1njtrjwy}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/9fu1qfyh1njtrjwy}, journal = {Grid Computing}, keywords = {centralized, computational-economics, distributed, grid-computing}, pages = {9--16}, posted-at = {2009-06-18 11:04:16}, priority = {2}, title = {Decentralized vs. Centralized Economic Coordination of Resource Allocation in Grids}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/9fu1qfyh1njtrjwy}, year = {2004} }

TY - CHAP ID - Eymann2004Decentralized L3 - citeulike-article-id:4890524 N2 - Application layer networks are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual computers, like in Grid or Peer-to-Peer computing. Controlling the resource allocation in those networks is nearly impossible using a centralized arbitrator. The network simulation project CATNET will evaluate a decentralized mechanism for resource allocation, which is based on the economic paradigm of the Catallaxy, against a centralized mechanism using an arbitrator object. In both versions, software agents buy and sell network services and resources to and from each other. The economic model is based on self-interested maximization of utility and self-interested cooperation between agents. This article describes the setup of money and message flows both for centralized and decentralized coordination in comparison. JF - Grid Computing EP - 16 TI - Decentralized vs. Centralized Economic Coordination of Resource Allocation in Grids SP - 9 KW - centralized KW - computational-economics KW - distributed KW - grid-computing AU - Eymann, T AU - Reinicke, M AU - Ardaiz, O AU - Artigas, P AU - Díaz AU - Freitag, F AU - Messeguer, R AU - Navarro, L AU - Royo, D AU - Sanjeevan, K PY - 2004/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/9fu1qfyh1njtrjwy ER -