Distributed computing paradigms for sharing resources such as Clouds, Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such as PlanetLab, OneLab, BOINC, BitTorrent, and SETI@home, a widespread use of these technologies for business applications has not yet been achieved. In a business environment, mechanisms are needed to provide incentives to potential users for participating in such networks. These mechanisms may range from simple non-monetary access rights, monetary payments to specific policies for sharing. Although a few models for a framework have been discussed (in the general area of a "Grid Economy"), none of these models has yet been realised in practice. This book attempts to fill this gap by discussing the reasons for such limited take-up and exploring incentive mechanisms for resource sharing in distributed systems. The purpose of this book is to identify research challenges in successfully using and deploying resource sharing strategies in open-source and commercial distributed systems.

InhaltsangabeEconomic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems // Part I: Reputation Mechanisms and Trust / A Belief-based Trust Model for Dynamic Service Selection - Ali Shaikh Ali and Omer F. Rana / Reputation, Pricing and the E-Science Grid - Arun Anandasivam and Dirk Neumann / Trust-oriented Utility-based Community Structure - Georgia Kastidou and Robin Cohen / Formation of VOs in Grids: A Game-Theoretic Approach - Thomas E. Carroll and Daniel Grosu / Towards Dynamic Authentication in the Grid - Jürgen Mangler, Erich Schikuta, Christoph Witzany, Oliver Jorns, Irfan Ul Haq and Helmut Wanek // Part II: Service Level Agreements / Enforcing SLAs Using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager - Mario Macías, Garry Smith, Omer Rana, Jordi Guitart and Jordi Torres / Economically Extended Resource Management - Tim Püschel, Nikolay Borissov, Dirk Neumann, Mario Macías, Jordi Guitart and Jordi Torres / Mitigating Provider Uncertainty in Service Provision Contracts - Chris Smith and Aad vanMoorsel / Text-Content-Analysis - Axel Tenschert, Ioannis Kotsiopoulos and Bastian Koller // Part III: Business Models and Market Mechanisms / Cloud Computing Value Chains - Ashraf Bany Mohammed, Jörn Altmann and Junseok Hwang / A Simple Model for Determining the Optimal Capacity Investment - In Lee / A Combinatorial Exchange for Complex Grid Services - Melanie Mossmann, Jochen Stößer, Adam Ouorou, Eric Gourdin, Ruby Krishnaswamy and Dirk Neumann / Heuristic Scheduling in Grid Environments - Christian Bodenstein / Facing Price Risks in Internet-of-Services Markets - Raimund Matros, Werner Streitberger, Stefan Koenig and Torsten Eymann