• A catallactic market for data mining services. 

      Joita, Liviu; Rana, Omer; Freitag, Fèlix; Chao, Isaac; Chacín Martínez, Pablo; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Ardáiz Villanueva, Óscar (2007)
      Article
      Accés obert
      We describe a Grid market for exchanging data mining services based on the Catallactic market mechanism proposed by von Hayek. This market mechanism allows selection between multiple instances of services based on operations ...
    • Assessing a distributed market infrastructure for economics-based service selection 

      Brunner, René; Chao, Isaac; Chacín Martínez, Pablo; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Ardáiz Villanueva, Óscar; Joita, Liviu; Rana, Omer (Springer, 2007)
      Comunicació de congrés
      Accés obert
      Service selection is an important issue for market-oriented Grid infrastructures. However, few results have been published on the use and evaluation of market models in deployed prototypes, making it difficult to assess ...
    • Maximizing revenue in Grid markets using an economically enhanced resource manager 

      Macías Lloret, Mario; Rana, Omer; Smith, Garry; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Torres Viñals, Jordi (2008-09-01)
      Article
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      Traditional resource management has had as its main objective the optimization of throughput, based on parameters such as CPU, memory, and network bandwidth. With the appearance of Grid markets, new variables that determine ...
    • SLA-based resource management and allocation 

      Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Macías Lloret, Mario; Rana, Omer; Wieder, Philipp; Yahyapour, Ramin; Ziegler, Wolfgang (John Wiley & Sons, 2009-11)
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      The aim of the chapter is to describe how service-level agreements (SLAs) could be utilized to provide the basis for resource trading based on economic models. SLAs enable a service user to identify their requirements, ...